Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-18
eonpany Of follower. His heah vas shattsrsd. IND

he lived only a few years
That night the party slept the north side Of he
Iehieh Mountains, half a mile from. the Indian VI
1age of Holendaqua. Next morning, while q
away during the night, others went the village 70
request Lappawinzoe the chief 10 send other Indian,
to accompany the walkers. He angriy replied: you
take the bad too" One old Indian indignant the
stories of how the white men rushed along in their
greed to get much land possible, remarked IN
tone of deep disgust mo sit down to smoke no shoot
squirrel but lun, lun, lun, all day long.
Scarcely had the last half-day's walk begun before
Yeates, who drinking man, was overcome by
the tremendous exertions and intemperance 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 Passing the last Of the
blazed which had hitherto guided him, he seized
compass offered by Surveyor General Eastburn and
by aid still continued his onward AT last,
looked at his watch, called. Haiti Marshall in
stantly threw himself at full length and gTaped sap
boundary of the purchase of 1886, sxty-eigh miles
from the old chestnut-tree at Wrishstown and very
close where Mauch Chunk stands to-day. The
walk twice as long as the Indians expected it to
be.
Unfortunately for the Delawares, they knew too
little of legal tecncaities to notice that the deed did
in what direction the northern boundary
to be drawn They naturally expected 1t TO be drawn
to the nearest point on the Delaware But the sur
veyorgeneral TO please Penn, decided that the line
should right angles 10 the direction of the
walk which almost exactly northwest Draw
extended it would pass through New York city. and
another to the point where New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania The first is the Indians idea
of the just way TO lay out the northern boundaryj
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 acres which the
Indians would have given to the Penns as the result
by taking selfish advantage of flaw in the deed.
The Lenni- Lenape had loved and trusted William
Penn because he always dealt openly and fairly with
z i've in love with Penn No
children said they as long as the sun and moon will
inT purchase Sa aropse9 the Geepe. ndgnaton next
May said Lappawinzoe, I'VE will go Philadelphia,
each one with buckskn 10 repay the presents and
take back land again" It too late, however.
for this to be done.
At last, in 174I. the Indians determined to
justice But the Iroquois, 20 whom
the Deawares had long been subject. 20 the aid
of the Penns and the last hope of rghtng the wrong
gone forever.
There seems 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 killed in attack by the Indians. East
burn repudiated by Thomas Penn and his heirs
notified that they need not expect the least
favor" Penn himself brought before the king
and forced TO disown many of his acts and agents in
most humliating manner.
But all this did not repair the injury 10 the Della
wares, and they again owned, a tribe
single inch along the river from which they took their
small monument erected by the Bucks County
Historical Society marks the spot where the old chest
formerly stood In order that this might
condone unworthy deed, the monument
dedicated, not to those who made conducted
the walk, but the Lenni -Lenape Indiansnot the
wrong. but to the persons wronged."
The inscription the stone reads:
MEMORY OF THE LENNr-LENAPE INDIANS,
OWNERS THIS REGION,
TEEsE STONES PLACED
SPOT, STATING
POINT OF THE
"INDIAN WALK"
September 70, 1897.