12/14 The city was founded by William Penn in 1682. There is a monument marking the site of the signing of Penn's famous treaty with the Indians. With some little account of this treaty I shall conclude my notice of America. made a grant of land to Penn, but this good man would not enter upon its possession until after he had arranged a treaty with those to whom he justly thought it more fairly belonged than to the King of England--namely, with the Indians. He consequently convened a meeting--under the wide spreading branches of an elm tree, the Indian chiefs assembled. |