Philadelphia, von dem großen Baum zu Kingston wo Penn den großen Traetar mit den Indianern schloß.

Title

Philadelphia, von dem großen Baum zu Kingston wo Penn den großen Traetar mit den Indianern schloß.

Description

View of the city of Philadelphia from the great elm tree in Kensington. It was under this tree that Penn signed his Great Treaty with the Indians. The Treaty of Shackamaxon, also called the Great Treaty and Penn's Treaty, was a treaty signed in 1682 between William Penn and Tamanend of the Lenape. The treaty established peace between the Quakers and the Lenape, with Tamanend saying that the two would “live in peace as long as the water flows in the rivers and streams and as long as the stars and moon shine. Pennsylvania tradition holds that the Colony's founder, William Penn, signed his 1682 treaty with the Leni Lenape tribe beneath this ancient tree. The "Treaty Elm" blew down in 1810, and the site is now Penn Treaty Park. The territory of Shackamaxon evolved into the neighborhoods of Kensington and Fishtown.

ca. 1840

Artist

Frenzel

Historical Description

Philadelphia is one of the oldest cities in the USA. It was planned by the city's founder William Penn in 1681 as the capital of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania. In 1683, 13 German Quaker and Mennonite families from Krefeld arrived in Philadelphia on the ship ‘Concord’ and settled in the new suburb founded by Franz Daniel Pastorius called Germantown. After New York (1788-1790), Philadelphia was the second capital of the United States of America (1790-1800) until the completion of the new capital Washington, D.C. The Declaration of Independence was adopted and proclaimed in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776, as was the Constitution on 17 July 1787. Until the early 19th century, Philadelphia was also the largest city in the USA and at times the largest English-speaking city west of London. Edgar Allan Poe and his wife Virginia Clemm Poe spent six very productive years in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1844. Initially he was editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then editor-in-chief of Graham's Magazine. During these years, Poe wrote Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Double Murder in the Rue Morgue and The Gold-Bug, among others.