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    1. Re: [MDCECIL] Capt Johan Hans Steelman,Indian trader
    2. Going from memory. Several of the Steelman men wed New Castle Co females.Capt Johan Hans wed a Stalcup,I think. [When I was a boy listening to my Cincinnati Reds on the radio, Virgil Stalcup was the Red's shortstop!]. Stalcup's lived on Christina near Charles Springer [I had a 7th grade teacher named Mrs Springer,whose dau,Tamsin,was in my class.] James LeTart is remembered as an important Indian trader with a creek named for him near Carlisle,Pa,and further west,a [?] mountian,and finally,near Racine,s Ohio, LeTart's Falls of the Ohio River. His mother,Madame LaTort,of sw Lancaster Co,Pa had siblings apprentaced sp? to Capt Johan Hans Steelman,and one of the LaTort boys stole from Steelman,and fled. Steelman sent his Indians after the LaTort youth, with instructions to catch him dead or alive,and they did the latter. Pa liscenced Indian traders. Capt Johan Hans 'lived" outside Pa,in Cecil Co, Md,but traded up the rivers into Pa,causing Wm.Penn to write him. Though Capt Johan Hans died aged andpoor in southern Adams Co,Pa,just east of Friend's Gap thru the 1st mountian range,in the disputed Mason-Dixon line area, 30 years earlier he had loaned [?] sums of money so that the Swedes could build Holy Trinity-Old Swedes,in Wilmington,Del.

    12/03/2006 01:18:38