The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-15

company of followers His health was shattered and
he lived only few years
hat night the party slept the north side of tha
Iehigh Mountains, half a mile from the Indian VIII
lage of Hokendaqua. Next morning, while some Of
the party searched for the horses which had strayed
away during the night others went to the village To
request Lappawinzoe the chief to send other indians
to accompany the walkers. He angrily replied: eYou
have all the good land now, and you may as well
take the bad too. One old Indian indignant at the
stories of how the white men rushed along in their
greed to get as much land possible, remarked in a
tone of deep disgust: NO sit down smoke; no shoot
SQUIRREL but lun, lun, lun all day long"
Scarcely had the last half-days walk begun before
Yeates who was drinking man. was overcome by
the tremendous exertons and inemperance of the
previous day. He stumbled at the edge of Big Creek
and rolled, helpless down the bank into the water
When rescued he entirely blind and his death
followed within three days.
Marshall still pressed on. Passing the last of the
bazed trees which had hitherto guided him. he seized
compass offered by Survcyor-G General Eastburn and
oy its aid still continued his onward course AT last
sheriff Smith, who for time had frequently
-ooked at his watch, called, HAIR Marshall in
stantly threw himself at full length and grasped SAP
ling Here the starting point for the northern
boundary of the purchase of 1886, sixty-eight miles
from the old chestnut-tree at Wrightsown, and very
close TO where Mauch Chunk stands to-day. The
walk was twice as long the Indians expected it to
Unfortunately for the Delawares, they knew too
little of legal technicalites notice that the deed did
not state in what direction the northern boundary was
to be drawn They naturally expected it to be drawn
TO the nearest point on the Delaware But the sur
Veyor-gcneral TO please Penn decided that the line
should run at right angles to the direction of the
walk which almost exactly northwest Draw a
line from Mauch Chunk to the Delaware so that il
extended it would pass through New York city, and
another to the point where New York New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania meet. The first is the Indians idea
of the just way TO lay out the northern boundary;
the second is the line which Surveyor General East
burn actually finished marking out in four DAYS after
Marshail's walk ended.
And so the three hundred thousand acres which the
Indians would have given to the Penns as the result
OF MarshalPs walk increased to half a million
b. taking selfish advantage of flaw in the deed
The Lenn-Lenape had loved and trusted William
Penn because he always dealt openly and fairly with
them I'VE will live in love with William Penn and his
children, said they as long the sun and moon will
shine" But the wrongs inflicted them in the walk
May, said Lappawinzoe, Eve will 60 to Philadelphia,
each one with a buckskn to repay the presents and
take back our land again" 1t too late, however,
for this to be done.
At last in I74I, the Indians determined to resort TO
arms to secure justice But the Iroquois to whom
the Deawares had long been subject came to the aid
OF the Penns, and the last hope of rghting the wrong
was gone forever.
There sort of poetic justice in the later ex-
periences OF the principal in 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 repudated by Thomas Penn, and his heirs
were notified that they need not expect the LEAST
favor Penn himself was brought before the king
and forced to dsown many of his acts and agents in
most huniliating manner
But all this did repair the injury to the Della
wares, and they never again owned, a tribe, a
single inch along the river from which they took their
name.
A small monument erected by the Bucks County
Historical Society," marks the spot where the old chest
nutree formerly stood In order that this might NOT
seem to condone unworthy deed the monument
was dedicated not TO those who made or conducted
the walk but to the LennLenape Indians-"not to the
wrong but to the persons wronged"
The inscription on the stone reads
10 THE MEMORY OF THE LENNI-LENAPE INDIANS
ANCIENT OWNERS THIS REGION,
STONES ARE PLACED AT
THIS SPOT, THE STARTING
POINT OF THE
INDIAN WALK"
September 70 1887.