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Tribe, had his wigwam and negotiated many treaties with other 

 tribes and with the white men. 



Tradition has it that among the many captives taken by Mannacas- 

 set were a young mother and her daughter. The chief spared their 

 jives but sent forth a decree that under penalty of death the woman 

 must not wander beyond the shade of the oak which overspread the 

 hut in which she lived. 



Shortly after the death of Mannacasset the treaty for the purchase 

 from the Indians of the site, which is now within the National Capi- 

 tal, was signed beneath the brandies of this majestic oak. Several 

 homes were offered the captive, but she preferred to remain beneath 

 the shelter of the sturdy oak. In appreciation of her sufferings, a 

 tract of ground 17% acres in extent was assigned to her as "The 

 Widow's Mite," and to this day, this property (including also several 

 blocks adjacent) traces its deeds to the "Widow's Mite." 



Lincoln Oak. A white oak, just off the Bladensburg Road and 

 inside the District line at Fort Lincoln, marks the site of the Battle 

 of Bladensburg in 1814, where troops from the city of Washington 

 awaited the British. Abraham Lincoln when President, visited the 

 fortifications and drank from the spring beneath the tree. Ten feet 

 away from the tree is the springhouse, and a little more than 25 feet 

 from its door begin the breastworks of Fort Lincoln. This tree has 

 five or six main limbs, one so large it appears as if the trunk itself 

 had decided to change its course. From these main limbs, 20 lesser 

 branches grow and spread (fig. 12). 



Glebe Oak, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C. (See Trees 

 associated with religion, p. 51, also fig. 25.) 



De Soto Oak, in the grounds of the Tampa Bay Hotel. De Soto, 

 who became governor of Florida in 1539, is said to have been very 

 fond of this oak, and in its shade he is believed to have made a treaty 

 with the Indians. More than 350 years later, during the Spanish- 

 American War, Gen. Nelson A. Miles made his headquarters beneath 

 the branches of this venerable tree. 



Santa Rosa Live Oak Grove, 30,000 acres on and near Pensacola 

 Bay, set aside as a forest reserve by the United States Navy Depart- 

 ment in 1827 for the supply of ship timbers, under an act authorizing 

 "proper measures to preserve the live oak timber growing on the 

 lands of the United States," etc. A small part of the original "forest 

 reserve" is still owned by the United States Government as a naval 

 reservation. 



Great live oaks on St. Catherine's Island, coast of Georgia, first 

 national naval forest, purchased by the Government in 1799. The 

 timber in Old Ironsides was largely from St. Catherine's. 



Treaty Poplar of Indian Springs, Butts County, a monument to 

 two famous treaties made in the immediate neighborhood between 

 the United States and the Indians. 



