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and the land on which it stands came into the possession of the 

 Society of Friends in 1681. Its picture has been adopted for use 

 on the New Jersey State forestry crest or emblem. It is a matter 

 of authentic record that when John Fenwicke, who had bought one- 

 half of New Jersey for $5,000 in trust for Edward Byllings and 

 others, landed on the Delaware in 1675, he made a treaty with the 

 Indians in the shade of this oak, a treaty never broken, because no 

 Avhite man has ever been killed by an Indian in Salem County nor 

 any Indian by a white man. (See Trees notable for unusual size 

 or age, p. 87.) 



Washington-Ball Walnut Tree. (See Trees associated with notable 

 people, p. 4.) 



NEW YORK 



Presbyterian Oak, at Smithfield, about 6 miles east of Amenia, 

 on the road from Amenia to Poughkeepsie by way of Millbrook. 

 George Whitfield preached under this oak on Sunday, June 18, 1770. 

 The services were to have been held in the church, opposite which 

 the tree stands, but in order to accommodate the congregation he 

 delivered his sermon in the inviting shade of the oak. On the 150th 

 anniversay of this occasion, a plate was attached to the tree com- 

 memorating its history. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



New Garden Oak (called also u The Revolutionary Oak"), near 

 the Quaker Meetinghouse of New Garden. After the battle of 

 Guilford Courthouse, near what is now Greensboro, both General 

 Greene and Lord Cornwallis withdrew, leaving their wounded to the 

 care of the Quakers of New T Garden, 4% miles southwest of the bat- 

 tleground. The Quakers, then as now, peace-loving people, hastened 

 to care for the wounded of both armies, and as the mortally wounded 

 died, they were buried in the shade of a magnificent white oak. 



The South's "Living Christmas Tree,'' in Hilton Park, Wilmington. 

 (See also Trees notable for unusual size or age; p. 89.) 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Witness Tree, white oak still standing before the Donegal Presby- 

 terian Church, in Lancaster County (46) under whose spreading 

 branches the congregation swore allegiance to the Republic in June 

 1777 (fig. 26). 



Huguenot Oak, Oley Valley. Berks County. This white oak stands 

 in the middle of a public road and bounds the corners of four farms. 

 It is on the site of an earlier white oak under whose spreading 

 branches the first Huguenot settlers in Oley Valley held services on 

 their arrival from Rotterdam, in 1719. 



New London Oak, one of the largest white oaks in Pennsylvania, 

 stands by the New London Presbyterian Church, in Chester County. 

 The tree is centuries old, according to history, and was standing 

 there when this church w T as organized in 1726. Two Governors have 

 interested themselves in the fate of this tree when road work threat^ 

 ened its existence. 



Brandywine White Oaks, a trio of white oaks standing before the 

 Brandywine Baptist Church near Chadd's Ford, Delaware County. 



