Martin Chartier - PLAQUE
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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 Susquehanna 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.
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