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Info I have is that John Cartledge, son of Edmund and Mary Need, married Elizabeth Bartram
7 Sept 1705 in Darby, PA. The only child I have record of is Mary, b. 1719. She married
William Wright.
Here are my notes re John:
Wills: Abstracts, Book C : 1705 - 1714: Philadelphia Co, PA
TAYLOR, SAMUEL. Whitpain Township, Philadelphia. Co. Carpenter. October 22, 1708. August
24, 1709. C. 171. Sons John, Benjamin and Samuel. Executors: John Blunston, Jr. of Darby,
yeoman, and John Cartledge of Plymouth, yeoman. Witnesses: Robert Wilkins, Thomas McCarty
and Ann McCarty.
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In 1718 both sons of Edmund and Mary Cartledge were found on tax assessment rolls. Edmund
was the collector of taxes in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The two brothers were among
the few Quakers who embarked in Indian trade. John and Edmund Cartledge are mentioned as
fur traders for James Logan. John kept the trading post at Conestoga for James Logan. The
two brothers traveled down Little Owens and Owens Creek to what is now Stulls Ford of the
Monocacy River in Maryland, a route which became known as "Cartledges Old
Road".6 John died in 1726.
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Administrative bond posted 7 Nov 1705 by wfe, Elizabeth and brother, Edmund Cartledge.
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Ashmeade's "History of Delaware County" -
Justices Previous To The Erection Of Delaware County.
July 4, 1718. - John Wright (to be next to Jasper Yeates, Nicholas Newlin, Andrew Job,
Elisha Gatchell, John Cartledge, Francis Worley.
Aug. 19, 1718. - Same commission, with Andrew Hamilton.
Nov. 24, 1718. - Jasper Yeates, John Wright, Caleb Pusey, Richard Webb, Henry Nayle,
Richard Hayes, Henry Pierce, Nathaniel Newlin, John Wood, Joseph Coebourne, Henry Hayes,
James Gibbons, Andrew Job, Elisha Gatchell, John Cartledge, Francis Worley.
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Indian Trader
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"Pioneers of Old Monocacy" by Tracey & Dern:"Two of the few Quakers who
embarked in Indian trade were John and Edmund Cartledge from the Conestoga area of present
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They traveled down Little Owens and Owens Creeks to what
is now Stulls Ford of the Monocacy River, a route which eventually became known as
'Cartledges Old Road.' In the course of their travels they worked as
intermediaires between the Indians and the Pennsyklvania authorities in efforts to
maintain freindly and peaceable relations with Indian tribes and to govern white
encroachments. Unfortunately in early February of 1721/22 while tracing rum for skins with
a Seneca warrior named Sawantaeny, who was hunting on 'the Manakassy,' an
altercation arose as a result of the liquor, and the Sawantaeny was killed. Reverberations
were inevitable. (The authors give their source as Charles P. Keith, 'Chronicles of
Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1688-17!
48'.)
"John Cartledge died in 1726. Edmund lived on to become a taxable in 'Monocasie
Hundred' in 1733 and at the age of forty-six appeared before the November Court of
1734. In 1737 he established a trading post known as 'Hickory Tavern' located
where Sharpsburg in Washington County stands today. In 1748 he had land at 'Antietam
Level,' now the site of Fort Ritchie."
John and Edmund Cartledge were on the 1718 tax list in Conestoga Township along with
others who came early to western Maryland.
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