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ward, it now remained to draw a line from the end of the walk to the 

 river Delaware. The course of this line not being prescribed in the 

 deed of purchase, the agent of the Proprietaries, instead of running 

 by the nearest course to the river, ran north-eastward across the 

 country, so as to strike the Delaware near the mouth of the Lacka- 

 waxen, thus extending far up the river, taking in all the Minisink 

 territory, and many thousand acres more than if they had run by 

 the nearest course to the Delaware. In relation to this part of the 

 survey, we find, in Steel's letter-book, the following passage in a 

 letter to Letitia Aubrey, the daughter of William Penn, dated No- 

 vember, 1737: " In September last the old Indian purchase was cir- 

 cumscribed according to the deed produced and proved at Pennsbury 

 when a treaty was held there in thy presence; and the Surveyor Ge- 

 neral and my nephew, who attended the people that walked over the 

 land, and afterwards continued their journey from the upper point or 

 end of the day and half walk to the river Delaware, lohich employed 

 them about four days, informed me at their return home, that after 

 they crossed the great ridge of mountains they saw very little good 

 or even tolerable land fit for settlements." 



It is well known that the Delaware Indians immediately saw and 

 complained of the manner in which these things were done, as a fraud 

 upon them ; nor would they relinquish the land until compelled to do 

 so by the deputies of the Six Nations at the treaty of 1742. In a 

 pamphlet written by Charles Thomson, and published at London in 

 1759, entitled " An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the 

 Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British Interest, &c.," the 

 proceedings at this walk are mentioned as one of the causes of the 

 hostile feelings on the part of the Indians, which eventually led to 

 war and bloodshed. This pamphlet contains the statements of Thomas 

 Furniss and Joseph Knowles, who were both present at the walk. 

 Furniss resided at Newtown, and was a near neighbour to Yeates, 

 one of the walkers. He says that when the men started he was a 

 little behind, but was informed they proceeded from a chestnut-tree, 

 near the turning out of the road from Durham road to John Chapman's ; 

 that being on horseback, he overtook them before they reached Buck- 

 ingham, and kept company for some distance beyond the Blue moun- 

 tain, though not quite to the end of the journey. Some Indians at- 

 tended, whom he considered as deputies appointed by the Delaware 

 nation, to see the walk honestly performed. One of these repeatedly 

 expressed his dissatisfaction, and during the first day of the walk this 

 Indian said the walk was to have been made up the river. In the 



