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

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

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

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Frenzel