24 aiSTORY O? 



'^^From Chester, tradition describes the journey of 

 Penn to have been continued with a few friends, in an 

 open boat, in the earliest days of November, to the 

 beautiful bank, fringed with Pine trees, on which the 

 city of Philadelphia was soon to rise." The following 

 weeks, Penn, from a natural impulse, visited 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. 



To this period belongs his first grand treaty with the 

 Indians. It was held contiguous to Philadelphia. — 

 Here, Penn, with a few friends, met the numerous dele- 

 gation of the Lenni Lenape tribes. Here he confirmed 

 what he had promised the Indians through Markham; 

 under the bleak, frost-shorn forest, Penn proclaimed to 

 the men of the Algonquin race, from both banks of the 

 Delaware, from the borders of the Schuylkill, and it may 

 be, for the news had. spread far and wide, that the 

 Quaker King was come, even to Mengwis from the 

 shores of the Susquehanna, the message of peace and 

 love, which George Fox had professed before Cromwell, 

 -and Mary Fisher had borne to the Grand Turk. "The 

 English and Indians should respect the same moral law, 

 should be alike secure in their pursuits, and in their 

 possessions, and adjust every difference by a peaceful 

 tribunal, composed of an equal number of men from 

 each race." 



"We meet, said Penn, on the broad pathway of good 

 faith, and good will; no advantage shall be taken on 

 either side, but all shall be openess and love. I will not 

 call you children ; for parents sometimes chide their chil- 

 dren too severely; nor brothers only; for brothers differ. 

 The friendship between me and you, I will not compare 

 to a chain ; for that the rains might rust, or the falling 



