118 HISTORY OF 



Graaf, (who afterwards settled GraaPs Thai) Hans Pu- 

 pather, Michael Shank, Henry Pare, Peter Leman, 

 Melchior Breneman, Benedictus Witmer, Henry Funk, 

 Jacob Landis, Ulrich Houry, Hans Faber, Isaac Coff- 

 man, Melchior Erisman, Michael Miller, Jacob Kreutzer, 

 Jacob Boehm, Theodorus Eby, Michael Danegar, and 

 others. 



Down the Conestoga, towards Susquehanna, settle-^ 

 ments were made between 1716 and 1719 — among those 

 who took up lands and settled thereon, were David 

 Jones, Edmund Cartlidge and John Cartlidge. Edmund 

 Cartlidge resided in Darby township, Chester county, as 

 early as 1698, and in 1711, in Philadelphia county ,"^= 



been described, and his tiny, barky boat; he glides to a place 

 where, as every skilled piscator knows, fish are ; here, through 

 the calm and transparent water he strikes the spear through 

 the body of the fish, passes one hand below, and takes a huge 

 salmon or some other fish. 



On a certain occasion, as Kreider had the honor of the com- 

 pany of his Indian neighbors, and having that day consulted 

 his almanack to regulate his clock, by its indication of rising 

 and setting of the sun, noticed the moon would, in afew weeks, 

 be eclipsed ; he informed the guests that on a certain evening, 

 a few weeks from that time, the moon would hide her face* 



just as the clock would strike ; to hear, that the moon 



would refuse to shine, was nothing new to them, they had seen 

 eclipses before ; but that their white neighbor should possess 

 so much prescience as to know this before hand, was strange to 

 them. At the time specified when the hroad-faced mcon was to 

 hide her disc, fifty or sixty Indians assembled ; they were all 

 attention ; scarce had the clock struck, to their utter astonish- 

 ment, the moon's face began to lessen. Profound silence pre- 

 vailed. Their spokesman expressed the cogitations of the 

 wonder-stricken visitors, uttered it as their sage conclusion, in 

 these words : 'Tis the white man's God tells him this, else ho 

 would not know it before hand." 



♦Public Rec. West Chester, Vol. A. p. 291. 



