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afternoon of that day the Indians left them, having frequently called 

 to Marshall and forbid him to run. At parting they appeared dis- 

 satisfied, and said they would go no further, for, as they saw the 

 walkers would pass all the good land, they did not care how far or 

 where we went. Timothy Smith, then sheriff of Bucks, held his 

 watch in his hand for some minutes before we stopped in the evening, 

 and called out to the walkers, telling the minutes behind the time, 

 and bid them pull up, which they did so briskly that immediately 

 upon his saying the time was out, Marshall clasped his arms about a 

 small tree to support himself, saying he was almost gone, and that if 

 he had proceeded a ibw rods further he must have fallen. Next 

 morning, he says, the Indians were sent to, to know if they would 

 accompany us any farther, but they declined it. Indeed the unfair- 

 ness practised in the walk, both in regard to the way where, and the 

 manner how, it was performed, and the dissatisfaction of the Indians 

 concerning it, were the common subjects of conversation in our neigh- 

 bourhood for some considerable time after it was done. Joseph 

 Knowles says, that at the time of the walk he lived with his uncle 

 Timothy Smith, and was present on the occasion to carry provisions, 

 liquors, &c. About sun rise they set out from John Chapman's 

 corner, at Wrightstown, and travelled until about one o'clock of the 

 day, when the Indians began to look sullen, and murmured that the 

 men walked so fast, — calling out several times during the afternoon, 

 " You run, that is not fair, — you was to walk." The men appointed 

 to walk paid no regard to the Indians ; but were urged by Timothy 

 Smith, and the rest of the Proprietor's party, to proceed until the sun 

 was down. We lodged in the woods that night. Next morning, 

 being dull rainy weather, we set out by the watches, and two of the 

 three Indians that walked the day before came and travelled with us 

 about two or three miles, and then left us, being very much dissatisfied, 

 and we proceeded by the watches until noon. 



It appears, then, from the written statements of persons who were 

 present at the walk, as well as from various traditionary accounts of 

 the proceedings connected with it, that there was a studied intention, 

 and a preconcerted scheme on the part of the proprietary agents, to 

 extend the walk as far as possible in the most favourable direction ; 

 and that a line was drawn from its termination by such a course to 

 the river as should include within the limits of the survey, all the 

 desirable land in the forks of Delaware, and along the river, above 

 the Blue mountain. The extracts from Steel's Letter Book prove 

 that a trial was previously made of the extent to which the walk 



