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ferred to as the boundary of the original purchase. The precise 

 place at which this line struck the Neshamony does not seem to be 

 clearly known; but is supposed to have been near the " high rocks," 

 below the bridge on the present turnpike-road from Richborough to 

 Pineville. A line from the corner white-oak to this point would pass 

 very near to the meeting-house at Wrightstown, and we may hence 

 suppose the chestnut-tree was selected as being on, or very near that 

 line. This, however, is not " westward" from the white-oak, but 

 south-westward, and if the line did actually reach the Neshamony at 

 the place mentioned, as it appears to have done, it affords another 

 example of great neglect of accuracy in tracing the limits of the 

 early purchases of land in Pennsylvania. 



The persons employed on the part of the Proprietaries to perform 

 the walk were Edward Marshall, James Yeates and Solomon Jen- 

 nings; and these were accompanied during the first day by some of 

 the Indians. Mr. Watson, in his account of the walk (Hazard's Re- 

 gister of Pennsylvania, Vol. VI. p. 209) says that many of the cir- 

 cumstances relating to it were obtained by him from Moses Marshall, 

 a son of one of the men appointed to perform it. At sun-rise they 

 started from the chestnut-tree already mentioned, many persons hav- 

 ing assembled there, a number of whom, on horseback, accompanied 

 the walkers, carrying refreshments for them. The men employed 

 are said to have been famous for their ability as fast walkers, and 

 they were to have a compensation of five pounds in money and five 

 hundred acres of land. They walked moderately at first; but soon 

 quickened their march, so that the Indians frequently called to them 

 to walk and not to rvn ; but these remonstances producing no effect, 

 most of the Indians left them in anger at such conduct, saying they 

 were cheated. An old Indian said " no sit down to smoke, no shoot 

 squirrel, but km, lun, lun, all day long." Jennings and two of the 

 Indian walkers gave out before the close of the first day, being una- 

 ble to keep up with the others; but Marshall, Yeates, and one Indian 

 kept on, and arrived at sun-set on the north side of the Blue moun- 

 tain. At sun-rise next morning they started again ; but when cross- 

 ' ing a stream at the loot of the mountain, Yeates became faint, and 

 fell. Marshall turned back and supported him until some of the at- 

 tendants came up, and then continued the walk by himself. At noon, 

 the hour when the walk was to terminate, he had reached a spur of 

 the Second, or Broad mountain, estimated to be eighty-six miles from 

 the point of starting at the chestnut-tree. 



Having thus reached the furthest possible point to the north-west- 



