See also:

• CONESTOGA (said to mean " people of the immersed or forked poles ")

CONESTOGA (said to mean " See also:

• PEOPLE

people of the immersed or forked poles ")  , a tribe of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Iroquoian stock . Their See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country was See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania and See also:

• MARYLAND

Maryland on the See also:

• LOWER

lower Susquehanna See also:

• RIVER

river and at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of Chesapeake See also:

• BAY

bay . They were sometimes known as Susquehannas . They were formerly a powerful See also:

• PEOPLE

people, able to resist the attacks of the See also:

• IROQUOIS

Iroquois . In 1675, however, the latter overwhelmed and scattered them . After nearly a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century of wandering, the tribe suffered final extinction in the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• WARS

wars of 1763 .