David Boles asked for information about John Cartlidge and William Wright. I don't have the Rupp's History of York County, to which I suppose you refer, but John Gibson's History of York County Pennsylvania (Chicago: Batey Publ. Co., 1886) indexes three references to Cartlidge : 1) p29:INDIAN AFFAIRS--John Cartlidge and James Hendricks "being interpreters and both skilled in the Delaware tongue" served as interpreters at the conference with Conestoga, Gawanese and Delaware Indians held at the meeting of the Provincial COuncil held June 16, 1718. Considerable detail is given about this conference, its significance and outcome. 2) p35--INDIAN AFFAIRS--Before York County was opened to settlement, John Grist and others settled there without any warrant or legal right. The Indians complained. "The Governor, with the advice of the Commissioners, judged it necessary for the quiet of the Indians , and to prevent such audacious behavior for the time to come, by a warrant under his hand and seal directed to John Cartlidge, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, residing at Conestogoe, to warn and admonish John Grist and his accomplices forthwith to relinquinsh the land whereof they had taken possession. In case of their refusal the warrant required the Justic to raise the possee comitatus and to burn and destroy their dwelling houses and habitations." After Cartlidge so informed Grist, Grist traveled to Philadelphia to complain, where he behaved "in a very insolent and seditious manner" and was committed to gaol (jail). He later agreed to move and was released. 3) p48---PENNSYLVANIA- MARYLAND BORDER WAR--Championing the rights of Maryland was one Thomas Cressap. Maryland Governor Ogle complained to Governor Gordon (of Penna) that Cressap "was in great fear of other injuries from the behavior of the magistrate [i.e. Cartlidge] and other circumstances, and that some Indians said they were offered a good reward by one Cartlidge, of Conestogoe, to drive Cressap off his laand burn his house." This took place about 1732. William Wright is indexed to five places: 1) p181: REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE--Served as a private in the 30th Reg., (First Penna Reserve Corps), Company D--3 years service. 2) p186: REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE--Could not locate Wm Wright, but there is a William Waight [a typographical error?] on the roll of the 36th Regiment, Company C. Apparently a different man, as this unit also had 3 yrs service. 3) p327:SUSQUEHANNA AND YORK TURNPIKE--William Wright was elected one of twelve managers for the Susquehanna & York Turnpike Company on 7/23/1808. [It is not clear exactly what their duties were, but presumably they oversaw the construction]. The turnpike was a macadamized road from the river to York, which served as a toll road for many decades. 4) p499:BEGINNING OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD--"A kidnapping case at the borough of Columbia, in 1804, incited the people of that place to protect the colored. Race. The leader in this word was WILLIAM WRIGHT, A GRANDSON OF THE QUAKER EMIGRANT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS THERE. This plan was designed to allow escaped slaves at that early day protection from the 'slave-catcher', who came from Maryland and Virginia after them. This is what gave rise to the expression, "underground railroad," first used by one of the owners of human flesh, who could not find his game and declared there is an underground railroad somewhere." 5) P596: FOUNDING OF THE TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE--"Notwithstanding the early settlement of the locality, and the prominence attained by the ferry, the town was not laid out until 1811, and later. The part of the town known as Wrightsville containing 101 lots, lying between Hellam Street and Limekiln Street...was laid out by William Wright in 1811, and by him conveyed to Jacob Kline. Hugo Schroeder (Delmar, NY) hugoschro@aol.com ==== PAYORK Mailing List ==== POST - PAYORK-L@rootsweb.com UNSUBSCRIBE, PAYORK-L-request@rootsweb.com if DIGEST Mode, PAYORK-D-request@rootsweb.com