Excerpt from Proceedings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the Presentation of the Penn Papers, and Address of Craig Biddle: March 10th, 1873 The papers relating to the Indians are also very numerous, including a great deal Of information regarding the celebrated Indian walk These papers have been sufficiently examined to show that the extent of the walk has been grossly exaggerated, being not much longer than many men in our degenerate days are capable of taking, and the extent of land acquired very much less than is generally believed. The subject, however, will be made one of special comment hereafter, and I will not anticipate its discussion. In matters Of curiosity, there are no end of treasures, which will gratify the admirers 'of autographs and the enthusiastic antiquarians. We have receipts here ac knowledging the annual payment of rent for the province of Pennsylvania; for under the feudal system Penn could only be a tenant, and he seems to have paid his two beaver skins to the king, at his palace of Windsor, with all the regularity of a tenant of our day, who has agreed to forego the benefit of the exemption laws. Then there are petitions to the king bearing the names of all the principal people in the province; among others, a peti tion praying for the restoration of Penn, when, for a time, the government had been taken from him - a docu ment, by the way, of historical interest, not known ever to have been printed, and the existence Of which was doubted. Also, a list of the original purchasers, giving their English residences - a want long felt in tracing their ancestry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.