Tesinigh

Tesinigh lay on the Susquehanna below the mouth of the Conestoga Creek, in the country of the Susquehannock and their neighbours in south-central Pennsylvania. The river here runs wide and shallow between low hills, with rich bottomland that supported corn fields and village sites for generations. The Susquehannock traded furs and deerskins down the river to the Chesapeake, and their towns were the western partners of the Virginia and Maryland colonists. After the Susquehannock were defeated in the wars of 1675 and 1676, survivors left the lower river, and English traders and settlers gradually took up the land along its banks.