Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-12-23

company O: followers. His health was shattered. ana
ne lived OILY few years.
That night tho party scp. tic north side of th&
Lehigh Mountains, half mile from the Indian VII
lage OF Hohendaaua. Next morning. wnue some OF
the party searched for the horses. which had strayed
away during the night, Others went to the village to
to accompany the walkers lie angrily replied "You
have all the good land now, and yoa may well
take the bad. too: One old Indian. indignant at tta
stories Of how the white rushed along in .heir
greed to get az much land possible. remarked in
tone OF deep disgust: "No sit down smoke shoot
squirrel but lun iun ian. all day long
Scarcely had the last hali-day's walk begun before
ieates who was drinking man. was overcome BY
the tremendous exertons and intemperance of the
previous day. He stumbled at the edge Of Big Greek,
and rolled, helpless down the bank into the water.
When rescued he entirely blind and his death
followed within three days.
Marshall still pressed Passing the last Of the
a compass offered by Surveyor General Eastburn and
~ its aid still continued his onward course Vt last.
Sheriff Smith, who for some time had frequently
stanty threw himself at full length and grasped sap
ing. Here the starting point for the northern
boundary OF the purchase OF 1880 siXty-eght miles
close to where Mauch Chunk stands to-day. The
walk twice long the Indians expected it to
Unfortunately for the Dclawarcs, they knew too
little of legal technicaltes notice that the deed did
in what direction the northern boundary
to be drawn. They naturally expected it be drawn
nearest DC!dNdIC. but
veyor- general to please Penn decided that the lire
should at right angles to the direction OF the
walk which was almost exactly northwest. Draw
line from Maucl Chunk to the Delaware 50 that il
extended it would pass through New York city, and
another to the point where New York. New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania The first i, tic Indians idea
of the just way lay the northern boundary:
the second is the line which Surveyor General East
burn actually finished marking in four days after
Marshalls walk ended.
And the three hundred thousand which the
lrHt1 i1I have POW,
Of Marshalls walk were increased to hall million
b" taking selfish advantage OF flaw in the decd
The Lenni- Lenapc had loved and trusted William
Penn because he always dealt openly and fairly with
them. We will live i'll love with William Penn and his
children" said they as long as the SIN ard moon viii
shine But the wrongs inflicted on them in the walk
ing purchase aroused the deencSt indignation. \CN-
May said Lappawinzoe, "wc will to Philadelphia.
each with buckskn repay the presents ana
for this to be done
AT last in r74r tie Indians determined to resort to
the Deawares had long been subject. the aid
OF the Penns, and the last hope OF rghtine the wrong
was gone forever.
There seems sort of poetic justice in the later es~
perences OF the principal i'll the AFFAIR. Mar
shall never got his five hundred acres Of land, and
his wife was killed in attack by the Indians East
burn was repudiatcd by Thomas Penn. and his heirs
notified that they need not expect the least
favor" Penn himself brought before the kin,
and forced to disown many of his acts and agents i'll
most hmiating manner.
but all inns did not repair the INJURY 10 the Dcla
wares, and they never again owned tribe,
single inch along the river from which they took thei
A small monument, erected by the Bucks County
Historical Society, marks the spot where the old chest
nut-tree formerly stood In order that this might no
to condone unworthy deed, the monument
was dedicated, not those who made or conduccc
the walk but the Lenn-Lenape Indians-"not to til,
wrong, but to the persons wronged."
The inscription the stone reads
10 THE MEMORY OF THE LENN1-LENArE INDIANS,
OWNERS REGION.
THESE STONES ARE PLACED AT
SPOT, STARTING
INDIAN WALK"
September 49, 1857.