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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
est and East 1682 1683 New Jersey, New York, the metropolis of his neighbor proprietary, the duke of York, and, after meeting Friends on Long Island, he returned to the banks of the Delaware. Penn's Letter. To this period Duponceau and Fisher, 57. belongs his first grand treaty with the Indians. Beneath a large elm-tree at Shakamaxon, on the northern edge of Philadelphia, On the place, Vaux, Peters, Conyngham, in Penn. Mem. 1. William Penn, surrounded by a few friends, in the habis delegation of the Lenni Lenape tribes. The great treaty was not for the purchase of lands, but, confirming what Penn had written, and Markham covenanted, its sublime purpose was the recognition of the equal rights of humanity. Duponceau and Fisher. See Concessions, XI.—XV., and Penn's letter to the Indians, in which, proposes the future personal interview. It is to be regretted, that no original record of the meeting has been preserved. Under the shelter of the forest, now leafless by th