. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . atchet in his hand, and walked withan easy and careless lope. The walkers reachedRed Hill, in Bedminster, in two and a halfhours, took dinner with the Indian trader Wil-son, on Durham Creek, near where the old fur-nace stood, crossed the Lehigh a mile belowBethlehem, at what is now Jones Island, andpassing the Blue Ridge at Smiths Gap (inwhat is now Moore township, NorthamptonCounty), slept at night on the northern walk was resumed at sunrise, and termi-nated at noon, when Marshall, who alone heldout, threw himself at lengt
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . atchet in his hand, and walked withan easy and careless lope. The walkers reachedRed Hill, in Bedminster, in two and a halfhours, took dinner with the Indian trader Wil-son, on Durham Creek, near where the old fur-nace stood, crossed the Lehigh a mile belowBethlehem, at what is now Jones Island, andpassing the Blue Ridge at Smiths Gap (inwhat is now Moore township, NorthamptonCounty), slept at night on the northern walk was resumed at sunrise, and termi-nated at noon, when Marshall, who alone heldout, threw himself at length upon the groundand grasped a sapling, which was marked asthe end of the line. Jennings first gave out,about two miles north of the Tohickon, andthen lagged behind with the followers until theparty reached the Lehigh River. He then leftfor his home, in what is now Salisbury town-ship1, Lehigh County. 1 Solomon Jennings had settled some years previous totlie Walking Purchase on what is now the Geisingerfarm, two miles above Bethlehem, and living on the ex-. THE WALKING PURCHASE. 25 Yeates fell at the foot of the mountain, ohthe morning of the second day, was quite blindwhen taken up, and died three days , the champion of the walk, was notin the least injured by his exertion, and livedto the age of seventy-nine, dying in Tini-cum, Bucks The walk is said to have followed an Indianpath which led from the hunting grounds ofthe Minsis down to Bristol, on the Indians showed their dissatisfaction at themanner in which the so-called walk wasmade, and left the party before it was is said that they frequently called upon thewalkers not to run. The distance walked, ac-cording to the generally-accepted measurement,was sixty-one and one-fourth miles. NicholasScull says it was only fifty-five statute miles,while others estimate the distance as high aseighty-six miles. When the walk had reached the extremepoint in a northwesterly direction from
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