Combined Timelines for French White Shawnee Savage Martin Chartier, and son, Pierre (Peter) (1655-1758)

Martin Chartier: Timeline of Events:

1655. Martin Chartier. Birth: 1655 in St-Jean-de-Montierneuf, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; Baptism: 1 JUN 1655 St-Jean-de-Montierneuf, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; Death: 1718 in Dekanoagah (Indian village around current Lancaster County), Pennsylvania, USA. Martin Chartier and Robert Cavellier de La Salle sailed together in the same ship. Martin Chartier was a wood-runner and trader. Martin Chartier was the founder of the site of Pittsburgh (Penn.). Martin Chartier is the “Greatest French explorer on his own in North America”, a distinction to be shared with his half-breed son, Pierre. Martin Chartier, one of the old French Indian traders, had his trading post and lived for many years adjoining the farm afterwards owned by James Patterson, the Indian trader, and also the Susquehanna Indian town, three miles below the Columbia. The Penns gave Chartier a large tract o f land on Turkey Hill, in Lancaster County.

1660s.

1667 – Martin Chartier arrived in Quebec with father, brother and sister.
1668 – Martin Chartier meets a Shawnee boy turned over to the priests at Montreal who becomes his constant companion (Wolf, his future brother-in-law).
1669 – Martin Chartier on Louis Joliet's first expedition with his brother Pierre

1669-1670. Martin Chartier was with La Salle during his first trip of 1669-1670 to Detroit and Lake Erie.

1670s.
1672 - Martin Chartier on Louis Joliet's second expedition with his brother Pierre
1674 - Martin Chartier living with the Shawnee in Illinois on the Wabash River
By 1675 - Martin Chartier Sewatha becomes his Shawnee wife
1679 - Martin Chartier goes with LaSalle to build Fort Crevecoeur on the Illinois River ( with Wolf)
1679-1680. Winter. AD. In the winter of 1679-80, according to Margry's, Rene's son, Martin Char tier was among La Salle's companions when they built Fort Crevecoeur somewhere along the Illinois River (2000 miles from Montreal).

1680s.

1680-1685. Eskippakithiki is Established. Willard Jillson, noted Kentucky historian and naturalist, set the founding of the village at 1680 to 1685. (Clark, Jerry).

1683-1684. From 1683-84, Martin and his brother Pierre Chartier were fur trading associates, and they had a settlement in Fort St Louis, although they had no trading permit. 1683 - Martin Chartier found trading with the Shawnee at Fort St Louis with his brother P ierre.

1685-1692. From 1685 to 1692, Martin Chartier made the incredible trip from Montreal to Lake Michigan, then from there to the Cumberland River in Kentucky, then to the site of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then across the Alleghenies and along the Susquehanna River to Maryland where for a time he ran his own trading post.

1684 - Martin Chartier found in Lachine, Quebec
1685 - Martin Chartier living with Shawnee in Illinois territory
1687 - Martin Chartier arrested in Montreal
1689 - Martin Chartier found as a fur trade on the Cumberland River in Tennessee

1690s.
1690 - Martin Chartier stopped in a Shawnee village in eastern Tennessee

1690. Chartier came to the Province prior to 1690 and is sometimes referred to as 'the French glover of Philadelphia.' His trading post was on the Susquehanna , near the present city of Columbia, and where

1691 - Martin Chartier reunited on the Potomac River with old acquaintances from Fort S t Louis (LeTorts, Basillons, Godin, and Dubois). Martin Chartier, a trader at the mouth of the Susquehanna in 1692.

1692 - Martin Chartier living with the Shawnee on the Potomac in Maryland; next in Balt imore County, Maryland, was jailed in Ste Marie & Ann Arundel Counties as a French spy but escaped. 1692. Martin Chartier was a French outlaw who sought and found refuge among the Shawnee, with whom he married and raised a family. A son, Peter Chartier became a chief among them, a hunter wise in the trading ways of whites, who led them west to escape the encroachment of civilization. Martin Chartier's only crime was that he had gone among the Shawnees that owed him some beaver without the permission of the colonial authorities, and when he came back, the Governor put him in prison, and in irons, where he continued for several months; but at last got loose, made his escape, and ever since hath used the woods. He told it this way before the Maryland Provincial Council in 1692, at which time he resided t here with his Shawnee wife.

In 1692, Martin Chartier led a group of these Indians north to Maryland, settling at a place known as Old Town. Several years later, they moved to the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, an area then under the o fficial dominion of the Iroquois Indians. They then asked a local trib e, the Conestoga, to take them under their protection.

1693 - Martin Chartier traveled with Shawnee leaving Virginia to go to Ohio
1693. Martin Chartier married a Shawnee wife in Maryland in 1693.

1695. We find that the next recorded account of a white man's passing through our county was that of Martin Chartier, the white leader of the Shawnee Indians, in the year of 1695, as they were migrating to the Ohio River from Virginia. This tribe arrived on the great East-West Trail at Alliquippa's Gap, by the Warriors' Trail.

1697. Peter Chartier. Before 1697 - moved with Opessa Band to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

1700s.

1700 - Martin Chartier found living on the Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

1701. In 1701, both the Conestoga and the Shawnee appeared before William Penn and received formal permission for this arrangement. Martin Chartier set up a trading house in the area.

Peter Chartier1707 - living on Pequea Creek, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

1718. His son, Pierre, did the same about 1718. They both had Shawnee wives.

1718. Martin Chartier Death: 1718 in Dekanoagah (Indian village around current Lancaster County), Pennsylvania, USA. Note: Administration of estate granted 18 April, 1718 to James Logan of Philadelphia.Martin Chartier died 1718, noted Indian trader and interpreter in early Pennsylvania and Maryland, Frenchmen 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, settled 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.

1718. Martin Chartier died in 1718, master of a huge trading house and plantation on the Susquehanna River. He might have had several children, but only one son, Peter Chartier, handled the estate. Martin Chartier died at Dekanoagah in 1718. Martin Chartiere married an Indian squaw. When the Shawanese came from the South and settled at Pequea Creek, he moved there, and made his permanent residence among them. Martin Chartier spoke the Delaware language fluently, and acquired great influence with these Indians. The chief Logan was anxious to be upon good terms with him, and took special pains to cultivate his friendship. The loan commissioners, who were the Penns' agents for the sale of their lands, gave him a large tract, extending from the mouth of Conestoga Cre ek several miles up the Susquehanna. He built his trading-post, and finally settled upon the farm afterwards owned by the Stehmans, at or near where they built a saw-mill in Washington borough. Martin Chartier died at this place in 1708?. A message announcing his death was sent to Logan, who at tended his funeral. He left all his property to his only son, Peter Chartiere, who married a Shawanese squaw. Colonialist scholars tell us that it was not particularly uncommon at that time to find a white man disaffected with his own society living with an Indian tribe. What was rare, however, was to find a white man leading an Indian tribe, and this is precisely what both Martin Chartier and his son Peter did. The Shawnees that Martin Chartier met on the Mississippi River had been drawn there by the great French explorer, LaSalle. Martin Chartier died in 1718....." Martin Chartier died in April, 1718. James Logan was at his funeral, which shows that he was hel d in high esteem by the Penns."

1718. Peter Chartier, living in Dekanoagah, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, obtained title to 300 acres on the Susquehanna River where his father had died. “........His son, Peter Chartier, after living a few years at his father's place, removed to the neighborhood of New Cumberland, where he had a trading post. He left Cumberland Valley, and located below Pittsburgh. He was all his life an Indian trader, and finally went to reside with the Indians, and took sides with them again the English. He left descendants who reside, I believe, in Washington county, Penn.”

1730s.

1732 - Peter Chartierwitnessed a letter from Neucheconner & other Shawnee Chiefs to t he Governor of Pennsylvania and attended Council Philadelphia with othe rs
1734 -Peter Chartier founded Chartier?s Town in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania
1737 - Peter Chartierbecame a Pekowi Chief in Pennsylvania
1738 - Peter Chartiersigned petition to Pennsylvania

1740s.

1744 -Peter Chartier left the British of Pennsylvania with about 400 Pekowi & Kishpok o to join the French of Ohio and moved southwest to the mouth of the Sc ioto River, establishing Lower Shawnee Town with sons

1745. April. In April 1745, Peter Chartier and about 400 Shawnees took refuge in Lower Shawneetown after defying Governor Patrick Gordon in a conflict over the sale of rum to the Shawnees. Chartier opposed the sale of alcohol in Native American communities and threatened to destroy any shipments of rum that he found. He persuaded members of the Pekowi Shawnee to leave Pennsylvania and migrate south. After staying in Lower Shawneetown for a few weeks they proceeded into Kentucky to found the community of Eskippakithiki. “In 1745, Peter Chartier's Shawnees, now deeply under French influence, robbed James Dunning and Peter Tostee, Pennsylvania traders. Next year, Peter Chartier moved his band, some three or four hundred strong, to the Wabash, leaving Chartier's Old Town as a landmark on the Traders Path to the Forks of the Ohio. Some of his Shawnees returned to Pennsylvania in 1748 and sponsored by Scaroyady (their Iroquois overseer), asked to be accepted again as friends. When the French occupied the Ohio country a few years later, the pro-British Iroquois left, and the Shawnees joined the French, who built them a new town at Logstown. Then, when the French retreated in 1758, the Shawnees also had to leave. After Pontiac's War, they agreed in 1765 to return to their former home, and some of them returned to Logstown, but in 1772, just before Dunmore's War, this last group left Pennsylvania. (Wallace, Paula W.).”

1745 - Peter Chartiermoved on to near Winchester KY

1746 - Peter Chartiermoved to the French Lick area of Tennessee (later became Nashvil le)
1747 - Peter Chartiermoved to the Coosa River, Alabama area
1748 - Peter Chartierallegedly seen with some of his band in Illinois and Detroit
1749 - Peter Chartiermet Colonel Celeron De Blainville at the forks of the Ohio (Pitt sburgh)

1750s.

1752 - Peter Chartierreturned to Kentucky
1754 -Peter Chartier present with his Shawnee warriors at the murder of Captain Jumon ville and responsible for the French victory of George Washington at Ft . Necessity
1754 to 1759 - Peter Chartieractive in opposition to the British in the French-Indian W ar
1758 - Peter Chartierin Ohio
Peter Chartier was last seen in a village on the Wabash River.

With George Miranda, Peter Chartier drew up a petition for a ban on all liquor trade between the English traders and the Shawnees and the entire village pledged to smash any existing kegs, and spill the rum, and to remain dry for a period of four years. The names of ninety-eight Shawnees are attached to this contract, which was submitted to the Pennsylvania authorities. It does not appear to have been carried out, however. Peter Chartier, apparently disgusted at the way the white traders took advantage of the Shawnees, led them away from the English trading posts. When the Shawnees returned, Peter Chartier was not with them."