. A history of the United States. ladelphia Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania. One of the earHersettlers wrote an account of his experiences. I settled,he wrote, upon my tract of land, which I purchased ofthe Proprietor . . and set up a house and a corn millwhich was very useful to the country for several milesround. But there not being plenty of horses, people gener-ally brought their corn on their backs many miles; I remem-ber one man who had a bull so gentle that he used to bringhis corn on him instead of a horse. Many of the settlersin the first years had neither horses nor plows. As the c
. A history of the United States. ladelphia Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania. One of the earHersettlers wrote an account of his experiences. I settled,he wrote, upon my tract of land, which I purchased ofthe Proprietor . . and set up a house and a corn millwhich was very useful to the country for several milesround. But there not being plenty of horses, people gener-ally brought their corn on their backs many miles; I remem-ber one man who had a bull so gentle that he used to bringhis corn on him instead of a horse. Many of the settlersin the first years had neither horses nor plows. As the colo-nists were industrious and thrifty there was no starving timein Pennsylvania. Germantown. — Among the earlier bands of settlers weretwelve or thirteen German families, mostly weavers, under 94 A SECOND GREAT EMIGRATION the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius. They reachedPhiladelphia in 1683 and were welcomed by Penn. Theybought a tract of land a few miles north of the town, andbegan the settlement known as Germantown in 1692 Penns Treaties with the Indians. — Penn was much inter-ested in the Indians, and often traveled among them. InJune, 1683, he met a large number of chiefs and their warriorsunder a great elm tree near Philadelphia and made a treatywith them. The spot where this Treaty Elm stood is nowmarked by a monument, and is within the present limits ofthe city. Penn described the treaty in a letter to his friendsin England, — great promises passed between us of kindnessand good neighborhood, and that the Indians and Englishmust live in love as long as the sun gave light. Penn purchased the land from the Indians, although theking had given it to him. He bought from a chief one tractof land as far back from the Delaware as a man could rideon horseback in two days. The chief was to receive so muchwampum, so many guns, shoes, stockings, looking-glasses,blankets, and other goods as William Penn shall please togive us. THE CAROLINAS 95
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