Martin Chartier - PLAQUE
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N 39° 59.890 W 076° 28.398
18S E 374233 N 4428593
Indian trader and interpreter.
Waymark Code: WMMRC
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/19/2006
Views: 38
Marker Text:
Died 1718. Noted Indian trader and interpreter in early Pennsylvania and Maryland. Frenchman from Canada who resided at Fort St. Louis of the Sieur de La Salle in present Illinois, 1684-1690. A leader thence of the Shawnee Indians to Maryland, 1692, and to Susquehenna River at Pequea Creek, now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1697. Agent in William Penn's Treaties with the Indians of the Susquehanna. Settler here in later years at the site of Washington Borough on a 300 acre tract granted to him by Penn.
Father by his Shawnee wife of Peter Chartier, the Indian Trader and Interpreter.
Marker Name: Martin Chartier - PLAQUE
County: Lancaster
Date Dedicated: 09/01/1925
Marker Type: Plaque
Location: PA 441 (River Rd.) at Charlestown Rd., Washington Borough
Category: Early Settlement, Exploration, Native American
Website: Not listed
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