Anthony Sadowski

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• Anthony Sadowski Born Antoni Sadowski
• c. 1669 Poland
• Died April 22, 1736 (aged 67) Amityville, Pennsylvania
• Occupation Trader, interpreter, settler
• Spouse(s) Marya Bordt (Mary Bird)

Anthony Sadowski (c. 1669 – April 22, 1736) was a Polish-born Indian trader and interpreter employed by the provincial governor of Pennsylvania as an Indian agent in the western country.

Early life

Antoni Sadowski was born in about 1669 in Poland. He hailed from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski near the town of Kielce. His father was Marcin Sadowski, who was a chamberlain at the Polish king's castle in Gostyń and, as a deputy of the Polish Sejm, an inspector of the king's land holdings in Ukraine.[1] Though it is not known which schools Antoni attended in his youth, he did receive a classical education.[1]

During the Great Northern War in 1701, Sadowski was taken captive with his brother at Riga. He managed to escape captivity, and made his way to Scotland and England. He sailed to the British colonies, landing in New York City in 1704.

In America

A historical marker commemorating Sadowski is on the exterior of the Allegheny County Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After Sadowski moved to the colony of New York, he married Marya Bordt (anglicized as Mary Bird), daughter of Andrew Bird of Newtown, New York. They had six children together. Their eldest son Andrew Sadowski and three daughters, Justina, Anna, and Sofia, all married and had children. Two of their grandsons through son Andrew, James and Jacob Sadowski, became noted Kentucky pioneers.

Sadowski moved his family from New Jersey to Pennsylvania in 1712, to a 400-acre (1.6 km2) property along the Schuylkill River. He, along with George Boone—grandfather of the noted frontiersman Daniel Boone—was a founder of Amity Township in Berks County in 1719.

Sadowski worked to establish friendly relations with the Native Americans in the area, learning the Delaware (Lenape) and Iroquois languages. He served as an interpreter to other settlers.[1]

He became an Indian trader, traveling as far as Logstown (a village near the site of modern Ambridge, Pennsylvania).[2] With two other Indian traders, he established a trading post at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania in June 1729.[2] He became a citizen of Pennsylvania in 1735.[2]

Death and legacy

Sadowski died on April 22, 1736 in Amityville, Pennsylvania, and is buried in the cemetery of Old St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church in Douglassville.

His grave marker bears the following inscription:

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.[3]

However, French maps as early as 1718 identified Sandusky Bay as Lac Sandouské.[4]

References

1. Wierzewski, Wojciech (2006). "The Turbulent Life of Anthony Sadowski". Retrieved April 17, 2011.
2. See image of historical marker at Wikimedia Commons.
3. "Anthony Sadowski". Find A Grave. Retrieved April 16, 2011.

External links

• Anthony Sadowski on Find A Grave
• Anthony Sadowski - Polish Pioneer
• The Turbulent Life of Anthony Sadowski
• The First Polish Musician in America

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Greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township, PA in 1719. Founder of the Sandusky family in America. May have had an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie, and gave his name to Sandusky, OH.

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Anthony Sadowski is the 5th great grandfather of President Gerald Ford.

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Antoni Sadowski was born in Gostyn, Poland about 1669. It is believed that he attended a classical school as he is reputed by descendants to have spoken seven languages. As soon as he finished his schooling he continued in government service. In 1700 Sweden invaded the area of Riga which was then Polish territory and Antoni and his brother left home to participate in the battles. In the spring of 1700 Antoni was captured and his brother killed in an attack. Oral history says that he survived torture during interrogation and later escaped from his prison ship into Riga Harbor.

He escaped to Holland where he married his first wife and shortly thereafter he made his way across the Atlantic to the area of Freehold, New Jersey. Around 1705 he married Mary Bordt the daughter of Andrew Bordt and Mary of Long Island, New York. In 1712 Antoni moved to Pennsylvania where he purchased for 30 pounds, 400 acres of land along the Schuylkill River 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, southeast of current Reading and near the present village of Douglasville. In 1716 he built a stone house and was involved in the organization of Amity Township, in Berks County. Antoni learned the Delaware and Iroquois Indian languages and served as an interpreter and representative of the colonial government to the Indians. He was actively involved in the Indian fur trade and there is controversy whether he was responsible for the name now used by Sandusky, Ohio. Antoni Sadowski died on April 22, 1736 and he was buried in the graveyard of St. Gabriel's Church just a mile from his home. His estate inventory was made by George Boone, grandfather of Daniel Boone.

In the name of God Amen, The Twenty ninth of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred thirty five, I, Antony Sadowski of Amity in the County of Philadelphia and province of Pensilvania, yeoman, being very weak in body but of perfect minde and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, doe make and ordain this My Last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all, I give and recomend my soul to God that gave it and for my body I recomend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent maner at the designation of my Exe'trs, nothing doubting but att the Generall ressurection I shall receve the same again by the mighty power of God. As touching such worldly estate wherewith it pleased God to bless me in this life I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form:

Imprise - I doe give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Mary Sadowsky all my Tenaments and Liveings which is two hundred acres of land fronting upon Skullkill dureing her widowhood and in case the said widow alters her condition, then she shall only have what the law directs to widdows and if she remains a widdow then she must enjoy and posses the said estate during her life and after her decease then my well beloved son Anderw Sadowsky shall injoy and posses the said estate with all the improvements and four horses, two cows, ten sheep, with all the utensils upon the said plantation and the negro man called Joseph and the white boy called John Marchell until he comes to age paying such legacies as I shall appoint.

Item - To my daughter Soffia Sadowsky I give two cows, one mair, ten sheep and best feather bed with all the furniture belonging to the said bed and all things in proportion that my daughter Ann Sadowsky gott when she was married to Increase MIller.

Item - I order and apoint that there shall be sold three hundred acres of land of the rear of said front in order to pay my just debts and whatever money remains after paying the said debts shall be equally devided between my two daughters, Ann and Soffia, and if the said land be sold before my decease then the said daughters shall have only forty pounds if in case there will be so much after paying my debts. And I doe appoint that after my wife's decease that all the stock and moveables shall be equally devided between the said two daughters.

Item - That the negro man named Joseph shall have twenty five shillings yearly during his servetude if in case he proves to be good and is all one and twenty years of age. After which age he is to have the said money paid yearly.

Item - John Marchel shall have two pounds in money and an ax and a grobing how when of age and the said money is to paid by him that posses the said two hundred acres of land.

Item - If in case my son Andrew Sadowsky should die without lawfull heirs that then the said estate shall be equally devided or sold and the one halfe of the said estate of money shall be possessed by my daughter Ann's children and the other halfe to be possessed by my daughter Soffia of her heirs and if in case the said land be possessed by my two daughters that the shall pay to my two gransons James Warren and John Warren twenty pounds to each when of age.

Item - If the said Andrew shall live and have heirs to posses the said land he shall pay to the said James and John Warren five pound to each of when they come to age.

Item - I constitute, appoint and ordain my well beloved wife Mary Sadowsky jointly with Marcus Hullings and Walter Camble of Amity Township whole and sole exec'trs of this My Last Will and Testament with full power to pay all my just debts and demand the same according to law. I doe hereby revoke and disannull all former wills, legacies, pronouncing and confirming this to my Last Will and Testament. In witness whreof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

In presence of us Henry Gibson Antoni Sadowski Andrew Caldwell

Philada June 17, 1736 Then personally appear'd Hnery Gibson, one of the witnesses to the fregoing will (Andrew Caldwell, the other witness, being removed to distant parts) and upon his oath did declare he saw & heard Anthony Sadowski, the testator above named, sign, seal, publish and declare the same will to be his Last Will & Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind and memory & understanding to the best of his knowledge & that Andrew Caldwell, the other subsribing winess to ye will did subscribe his name as witness thereto in the presence of this deponent and the sd Testator. Coram Pet. Evans Reg. gen.

• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 30 2020, 1:29:40 UTC

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Anthony Sadowski was born during the period of Poland's greatest financial woes. Presumably the year of his birth was 1669. The records of St. Gabriel's show he was sixty-seven when he died. The long war with Russia just before he was born had drained Poland's treasury. The election of John Sobieski as King John III in 1674 gave fresh impetus to correction of evils in the Polish government. Not all members of the Sejm felt the same as the new king. Some of the rich members, satisfied with their lives of ease and luxury, did not know what changes the king's reforms would bring, and they preferred to have things remain as they were. They won.

King John III's efforts to reform the country, however, captured the imagination of many Polish students, including Anthony Sadowski. There is a tradition that as soon as he finished his schooling he followed in his father's footsteps and served two kings. Unquestionably he drew into his blood the burning conviction of King John III that Polish rights, Polish freedom, and Polish soil must be cherished at all costs, even the cost of one's life.

The schools that he attended are unknown. The statement of his great granddaughter, Mrs. Susan Shanklin, to Rev. John D. Shane in 1854 that Anthony Sadowski was "a great scholar" and could "speak seven different languages" arouse the strong suspicion that he went to a good classical school. Anyone who did go to such a school in Poland learned the Polish, Russian, German, French, Latin and Greek languages, mathematics and the natural sciences. Others said he may have been a priest because he was deeply religious. If he had attended a theological seminary, he could have learned Hebrew rather than Greek or some other language so that he could read the Bible in its original language.

During the Polish-Swedish war, Sadowski was at Riga and in 1701 together with his brother was taken into captivity. There he suffered not only imprisonment but also torture as the Swedes wanted to learn the disposition of the Polish artillery. At last he managed to escape, jumping into the sea from a Swedish ship while being taken to another location, and so started his wanderings around the world. The family received scraps of information that he was first in Scotland before going to London where, during the reign of Queen Anne, he boarded a ship bound for America. He reached New York in 1704.

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Antony Sadowsky, son of Martin Sadowski, came to America to escape religious persecution in Poland during the Great Northern War in 1701, it is said that he was taken prisoner along with his brother at Riga but he escaped and made his way to Scotland and England. He was born of minor nobility and was well educated and a scholar in the classical tradition and an accomplished linguist. It is said he could speak seven languages and then learned several Native American languages as an early Indian trader in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.

He is famous as one of the earliest pioneers and Indian traders who settled along the Schuylkill River in William Penn's new settlement Pennsylvania in 1712. Served in the Provincial government as a messenger-interpreter during negotiations with Indian tribes in 1728. He reached New Amsterdam (New York) around 1703. He made his way westward to the community of Monmouth, now in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he lived and prospered for a few years. Monmouth at that time was populated largely by Dutch settlers who moved there from Long Island. Here he met and married a young Dutch girl, Marya Bordt, anglicized, Mary Bird, between the years 1704-1706. Records show that he quickly fit himself into the ways and the society of colonial New Jersey. On May 21, 1709, he was a witness to the will of Benjamin Cook, a planter of Freehold, New Jersey. In 1710, he made the inventory for the estate of William Laing. He had also established an account with Captain John Bowne, an established merchant at Matawan, a village on the south side of Raritan Bay, across from Staten Island, New York.

When William Penn was opening up new land for settlement in eastern Pennsylvania, Antony with his family journeyed to Philadelphia, where he bought 400 acres of land from Thomas Andrews on January 21, 1712 for thirty English pounds. Andrews was a Philadelphia barber-surgeon who, speculating in real estate, acquired the land in 1706 from Mathias Holstein, a native Philadelphian of Swedish descent who did not care to join the pioneers in the wilderness. The land had initially been acquired from a Swedish company, a parcel out of a ten thousand acre tract obtained by the Swedes from Penn's Pennsylvania Company, in exchange for the annual rent of one hundred bushels of wheat. The land Antoni purchased is located some fifty miles north and west of Philadelphia along the east bank of the Schuylkill River in what is now Amity township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, near the present town of Douglassville. The town was known at that time as Manatawany, and later, as Molatten or Morlatton.

They were neighbors of Squire Boone, father of Daniel Boone and several other children and Mordichi Lincoln, the Grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln. Well pleased with his purchase of prime wilderness land, and he and Mary set about the business of developing the property that was to be their family home and they were active in the new community. The virgin land, partly timbered with oak, hickory, ash and maple, offered building material and the well watered meadow lands were ideal for field crops and grazing livestock. The two previous owners never touched the land. A trail from Philadelphia along the river's east bank ran through Antoni's farm leading to a group of Indian villages at the forks of the Susquehanna. The road came to be called The Kings Highway and was an avenue for trade that became a major enterprise for him throughout his life.

By the year 1728 Antoni had established a trading post at Shamokin and was involved in peace negations with the Indians. By 1729 he founded another trading post much farther west on the Allegheny River, deep into the interior of Pennsylvania. At that time it was one of the most westerly outposts of civilization in the American Colonies, preceding the earliest permanent settlement west of the Allegheny by a quarter of a century. As trade expanded, Antoni made excursions beyond the Allegheny. He made expeditions into the Ohio country and became one of the foremost Indian traders of his time.

He became one of the first whites to penetrate into Ohio and even reached what is the present Clark County, Kentucky; long before the French and Indian War. On September 15, 1734, Sadowski acted as interpreter at the meeting of John and Thomas Penn, the Provincial Council and Oneida Indians at Philadelphia. Antoni earned and enjoyed an influential relationship with the Indian tribes and with the Colonists in his official capacity as a negotiator, interpreter and peace maker between the two. He was a pioneer on a historic scale, as were his descendants, the Sadowskis and Sodowskys/Sanduskys who inscribed their names gloriously in the early annals of the Middle West and Kentucky exploring with Daniel Boone and his brothers, fighting Indian Wars that had flared up by then and being the first settlers at Fort Harrod in Kentucky then establishing their own settlement named Sandusky Station near Fort Harrod.

A resolution was passed by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on August 2, 1966 to dedicate a highway marker in his memory on September 18, 1966, at St. Gabriel's Cemetery, Douglassville, fourteen miles southeast of Reading, Pennsylvania. According to records from the original St. Gabriel's Lutheran Church founded in 1720, Antoni died at age 67 on April 22, 1736, in the community that he and his family helped establish. Written records for St. Gabriel's begin in 1735, Antoni's death is the third entry under the heading, "Dead & Buried" and reads, "Anthony Zadosky, 67 year old, born in Poland".

The signature on his will made in 1735 is spelled Antoni Sadowski, the spelling of his name used by him throughout his lifetime. The commonly accepted anglicized form of spelling today is Anthony Sandusky. Antony and Mary Bird were the parents of five or six children:

Jonathan Jacob Sadowski, who is said by some sources to be Antoni's son from his first marriage,
Justina Sodowski Waren,
Andrew Sadowski,
Soffia Sadowski Johnson Darling,
Ann Sadowski Miller, and the sixth child, a daughter, name not known.

It is believed that Jonathan Jacob, or Jacob Sadowski, moved to Virginia about 1730 where he married Hannah Inskeep, the daughter of a Virginia planter. Since he was not mentioned in his father's will, it is believed that Johnathan Jacob may have died before 1735.

The eldest daughter, Justina, married James Waren and had two sons, James and John. Both Justina and her husband, James died in an epidemic of smallpox that swept through the community in 1931, and their children were taken to rear by Justina's parents, Mary and Antoni Sadowski. The young Waren brother's baptism is the earliest entry in the written records of St. Gabriel's Church, dated September 28, 1735. Under the heading, "Children & other Persons Baptized", it reads, "James Warin, born May ye 3d-1722 & John Warin, born 1731. Children to James and Justina Warin." The two sons of Justina Sadowski and James Warin remained in the community of Douglassville and left a long line of descendants. They are buried at St. Gabriel's Church, where their grandfather, Antony Sadowski is buried.

Anna Sadowski married Increase Miller, born November 4, 1707, the son of Captain Johnathan and Sarah Holmes Miller. They were married in about 1732 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York, where they raised their family*. They were the parents of ten children: Mary, born c. 1733; Justina, born c. 1735; Sophia, born c. 1737; Sarah, born c. 1739; Enoch, born c. 1741; Keziah born March 13, 1744, married Jesse Miller; Anna born c. 1746; Cloe born c. 1749; Rachel born c. 1750; and Samuel born April 10, 1752.

Sophia Sadowski married Isaac Johnson sometime between 1735, when her father's will was written, and 1748, when she was included in the will of her step-father, Thomas Palmer. She later married William Darling in Hampshire Co., Virginia between 1752, when her mother's will was written and 1758, when it was probated. We have no record of her children.

Andrew Sadowski married Katherine, last name not known, sometime before 1748 when he was included in the will of his step-father, Thomas Palmer. Andrew, who probably followed his father's tradition as an Indian negotiator and trader, was killed near the Cumberland Gap by white men masquerading as Indians in about 1774. They were the parents of seven children, all of whom followed in the pioneer spirit of their forefathers.

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