Talk:Walking Purchase

Where?
Wrightstown near the Lehigh?

It's hard to known what the author meant hear by "the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River (near present Wrightstown, Pennsylvania)".

It is commonly held that this continuation of the walking purchase was began near Wrightstown. Indeed, there is an historic marker on PA 413 commemorating the site.

On the other hand, if one were at the confluence of the Leigh and Delaware rivers, you would be in Easton. This is a good 40 miles from Wrightstown.

BTW: How about some references?

Please, clear this up. --Wbfairer2 01:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Wrightstown,Bucks County
Wrightstown is in Bucks County and close to the Delaware River. The Delaware and Leigh Canal (built in 1800s) runs from Easton and Bristol and connect to Leigh River. There is a marker for the Walking Purchase off of State Rt. 413 in Wrightstown Township,Bucks County. The article is not clear and sound like rivers meeting in that area and they do not. --Bill Wilson, Quaker,former Bucks Countian and journalist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmhwilson (talk • contribs) 02:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Why the confusion?

Here's what Anderson and Cayton say in their 2005 The Dominion of War, sourced from "The scandalous Indian Policy of William Penn's Sons: Deeds and Documents of the Walking Purchase," Pennsylvania History 37 (1970):

"Thomas Penn and James Logan produced what they maintained was a copy of an "ancient deed," dating from 1686, by whichthe Delawares had ceded lands ostensibly at the Forks of the Delaware- the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers- tp the extent that a man could walk in a day and a half. The time had come they said to carry out this walk.  The ancient deed was in fact a copy of a document recording a transaction that had long ago taken place further to the south, but the description was vague enough that Logan could maintain that it pertained to the land between the Neshaminy Creek and the Delaware River: that is the territory that Nutimus (the most defiant of the Delaware kings) had refused to sell."

The "Walk" started on 10/19/1737 and ended the next day. The purchase was finally signed in Easton, PA, 5 years later in 1742, on behalf of the Delaware/Lenni Lenape by the Iroquois who had also helped stage this now embarrassing stunt.

Would the writer please adjust the extraneous links to Wrightstown?

TheChindiThechindi (talk) 22:31, 19 May 2010 (UTC)John Whipple, Easton, PA.

Was Voltaire wrong about William Penn's 1683 treaty with the Lenape Indians?
There is a discussion here about William Penn's 1683 treaty with the Lenape Indians, and specifically whether Voltaire's famous quote ("...a treaty never written, never broken") from his 1764 Dictionnaire philosophique was incorrect. Could someone please take a look at it? Thanks! --Guy Macon (talk) 16:52, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

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