Anthony Sadowski

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.

Biography Early life 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. Though it is not known which schools Antoni attended in his youth, he did receive a classical education.

Sadowski moved his family from New Jersey to Pennsylvania in 1712, to a property along the Schuylkill River. Along with George Boone, grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone, he was a founder of Amity Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1719. With two other Indian traders, he established a trading post at Shamokin in 1728 and another at Kittanning, in June 1729. French maps as early as 1718 identified Sandusky Bay as Lac Sandouské.