1 r ' I I ill M fe law ig wy JmB r '-cr 7 ry Kicliard. RfKgent, Editor The whole art ok Government consists in the art op reing honest. Jefferson. , and PubHsJicr . . , ' ' i. -. VOL. I. STRO UDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1841. ' No 50. JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN. TEmrs. Two dollars ncr annum m advance Two dollar?: and a quarter, half yearly, and if not paid before the end of ine vear, two uonars auu a. mm. j. nuac who receive meir pa pers by a earner or stage drivers employed by the proprietor, will be charged 37 1-2 cts. per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at tne option 01 uiu cuiiui. IC7 Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines will be inserted tnree weeits lor one dollar : twenty-five cents for everv subsequent insertion ; larger ones in proportion, liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers. HZPAll letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid. Having a general assortment of large elegant plain and orna mental .type, we are prepared to execute even- des cription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Iffcad, IVotes, Blanlc Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER PAMPHLETS, &c. rrinted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terras. POETRY. "Wo ist der Deustclaeia Vaterland?" One of the best and most popular of the German national songs, is that commencing with the above. It was written in 1813, when the hopes encour aged by the Allied Sovereigns seemed to promise the political emancipation of Germany. Its spirit may be gathered from the subjoined translation. It is sung at all the patriotic meetings throughout Germany. Where's the German's Fatherland? Suabia, Prussia, which of these 1 Is it where the purple vine Blossoms on the beauteous Rhine! Is it where the sea-gulls rest Their bosoms on the Baltic's breast? No! ah no! 'tis none of these Greater is his Fatherland ! Where's the German's Fatherland? Bavaria, Styria, which of these? Tell me, tell me, does it lie Near Marsi or Westphalie? Is it in the gloomy mine Where the gold and iron shine? . No! ah no! 'tis none of these Greater is the Fatherland! Where's the German's Fatherland? Pomerania, is it this? -Is it where the flying sand Wind-blown ranges o'er the land? Is it where the roaring river Of the Danube flows for ever? No! ah no! 'tis none of these Larger is his Fatherland! Where's the German's native homo? Breathe to me the glorious land! Is it where the freeborn Swiss Roam contented is it this? Or where the Tyrolians dwell? Tho' clime and people please mo well Yet no! yet no! 'tis none of these Larger is the Fatherland! Where's the German's native home? Name! oh, .name the glorious 'clime! Is it Austria, fair and bright, Rich in honours, great in Sght! No! ah no! it is not here Greater is his Fatherland! Where's the German's native home? Breathe! or breathe the glorious clime!! Is it the devoted land Snatched by Gaul's deceitful hand?' Robber of our country's right, Hit tVira 1 "rn nnir rtC r!fThi' No! ah no! it is not here Greater is his Fatherland! Where's the German's father-home? Breathe at last that glorious spell! Where'er a German's freeborn speech Is uttered, or where if can reach! Where'er by German's pious tongue, Tho grateful Hymn to God is sung! 'Tis that! 'tis that! hail, land divine!' That, brave Germans! that call thine! That's the German's native land! vow3 are there sworn hand in hand: Truth and freedom fire- tho eye; Lovo i.-j pure fidelity; 'Tis that! 'tis that! hail land divine!' That, brave Gormann! that call thine! - That's tho German' native land! "Where warm sincerity is known;. , Where ne'er is heard a foreign tone; Where every cold, unfriendly heart Is bidden, as a foe depart; Where ercry warm-and noble mind Is as a friend by God assign'd! 'Tis there! His there .land Qf. thelfres! It shall bp all, all Germany! " ' The whole of Germany shall be Our Fatherland! It shall be free! 0 God of Heaven! enthroned above, Bless it with thy benignant love! With German valour, German truth, Fill every soul and fire our youth, Tint every harp and tongue shall tell, They served it faithfully and well! 'Tis here! 'tis here! land of the free! It shall be all, all Germany. Historical ft'olcs. (continued) In consequence of this, several tracts were laid out in mo Forks of Delaware, and divided into lois; ana llio' tne lottery did not readily fill, and consequently was not drawn, yet so inanv of the tickets as were sold became rights lo the and, by virtue of which tho tracis laid out. in the Forks were quickly taken up and settled- all these proceedings let it be recollected, took place, before any purchase was made of the Delawares, who resided oi the lands in question. The Proprietary himself as we before slated. did not seem to think, that ho had a riMit to them, without a release which is in these words. August 25, 1737. "We Tishekunk, alias Teshakomen, and Nootamis, alias Nutimus, two of the sachems of the Delaware Indians, laving almost three years ago, at Durham, be gun a treaty with our honorable brethren, John and Thomas Penn, and from thence another meeting was appointed, to be at Pennsbury, the next spring following, to which we repaired TT witli Lappawinzoe, and several others of the Delawares, at which treaty several deeds were produced and shewed to us by our said brethren, concerning several tracts of land, which our forefathers had more than fifty vears ago, bar gained and sold unto our good friend William Penn, the father of the said John and Thomas Penn, and in particular, one deed from May keerikkisho, Sayhoppy and Taughhaughsey, the chiefs of the northern Indians on Delaware, who did grant all those lands lying in the pro vince of Pennsylvaniaj beginning upon a line formerly laid out from a corner spruce tree by the river Delaware (Makerrikkittai,) and from .1 1 -V 1 f f , uiciice running aiong me leuge or loot 01 Ine mountains, West North West lo a corner white oak, parked with the letter P. standing by the Indian path, that leadeth to an Indian town called PJaywickey, and from the'nee extending westward to Neshamony creek, from which said line, the said tract or tracts thereby granted, doth extend itself back into the woods, as far as a man can go in one day and a half, and bounded on the westerly side with the creek called Neshamony, or the most westerly branch thereof, and from thence by a line to the utmost extent of the said one day and an half's journey and from thence to the aforesaid river Delaware, and from thenco down the several courses of the said river to the first mentioned spruce troc, &c. But some of our old men being absent, we requested more time to consult with our people, which request being granted, we have after more than two years, from the treaty at Pennsbury, come to Philadel phia, together with our chief sachem, Monocky kickan, and several of our old men" they then acknowledge that they were satisfied that the above described tract of laud was granted in 1686 by the-persons above mentioned, and agree to release to the Proprietaries all right to that tract, and desire it may be walked, travelled, or gone over by persons appointed for that purpose. (Signed.) Monockykickan, Lappawinzoe, Teshakomen, Nootamis, and witnessed by 12 other Indians, in token of fall and free consent besides other witnesses. These Delaware Chiefs for the most part lived on the Susque hanna and not on the lands which were released by this instrument, and consequently were not the real owners. It will no doubt appear strange, that no notice was taken of the deed of 1718, and that Sassoonan and other chiefs, with whom former treaties were held, although still alive, were not present at any of these meetings. i he reasons are plain enough. The deed of 1718, fixed the northern boundaries so distinct ly on the Lehigh hills, that no advantage could be taken of if. They would also have insisted on the deed of 1686 being produced, and regu larly proved, which could not it is probable be easily done it was certainly never recorded in the public ofiico, as the others are. It was therefore necessary, in order that the measures of tho Proprietaries might be carried on quietly, that the treaty of 1718 should be passed over in silence, and that Sassoonan should not be present nor any of those who signed it. We shall easily see by an account of tbe Groat Walk and of the advantage taken of tbe blanks in the Release, what would be gained by get- ! ting the deed of 16S6 confirmed. We hae no precise account of the rewards offered to tho persons employed in walking, nor any authentic particulars on record except those furnished by the affidavits of eyewitnesses taken during the Indian war 20 years afterwards, when the sub ject of the wrongs of the Minisinks, was fully discussed at the Easton treaties. I record first at length. "The relation which Thomas Fur niss, gives concerning tho day and a half's walk made between tho Proprietors of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Indians, by James Yeates and Edward Marshall." "At the time of the walk I was a dweller at Newtown and a near neighbor to James Yeates. My situation gave James Yeates an easy opportunity of acquainting me with the time of setting out, as it did me of hear ing the dill'erent sentiments of the neighborhood concerning the walk, some alledging it was to be made by the river, others that it was to be gone upon in a straight-line from somewhere in Wrighstown, opposite to a spruce tree upon the river's bank, said to be a boundary to a former purchase. When the walkers and the compa ny started, I was a little behind, but was in formed they proceeded from a chesnut tree, near the turning out of the road from Durham road to John Chapman's, and, being on horseback, overtook them before they reached Buckingham, and kept company for some distance beyond the Blue Mountains, tho' not quite to the end of the journey. Two Indians attended, whom I con sidered as deputies appointed by the Delaware nation, to see the walk honestly performed; one of them repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction therewith. The first day of the walk, before we reached Durham creek, where we dined in the meadows of one Wilson an Indian trader, the Indian said the walk was to have been made up the river and complaining of the unfitness of his shoepacks ior travelling, said he expected Thomas Penn would have made hint a present of some shoes. After this some of us thatjiad horses walked and let the Indians ride by turns, yet in the afternoon of the same dav, and some hours belorc sun-set, the Indians Ielt us, having often called to Marshall that afternoon, and for bid him to run. At parting they appeared dis satisfied, and said they would go no further with us; for, as they saw the walkers would pass all the good land, they did not care how far or where they went to. It was said we travelled twelve hours the first day, and it being in the latter end of September, to complete the time, were obliged to walk in the twilight. Timothy Smith then Sheriff of Bucks, held his watch in his hands for some minutes before we stopt, ana tne walkers havinga piece of rising ground to ascend, he called out to them, telling the min utes behind, and bid them pull up, which they did so briskh-. that, innrifcdiatclv on his savins- tho time was out, Marshall clasped his arms about a sapling lo support himself, and there upon the Sherifi asking him what was the mat ter, he said he was almost gone, and that, if he had proceeded a few poles further, he must have fallen. Wc lodged in the woods that night, and heard the shouting of tho Indians at a Cantico, which tln-y were said to hold that evening m a town hard by. Next morning the Indians were sent for to know if they- would accompany, us any further, but they declined it, altho 1 believe some of them came to us be fore wo started, and drank a dram 'in the com pany; and then straggled off about their hunting or some other amusement. In our return wc came through this Indian town or plantation Timothy Smith and myself riding forty yards more or less before the company, and as we approached within about 150 paces of the town, the woods being open, we saw an Indian take a gun in his hand, and advancing ' towards us some distance, placed himself behind a log that laid by our way. Timothy observing his mo tions, and being somewhat surprised, as I ap prehended, looked at me, and asked what I thought lhat Indian meant. -I said, I hoped no harm, and lhat 1 thought it best to keep on, which the Indian seeing, arose and walked be fore us to the settlement. 1 think tho Sheriff was surprised, as I well remember I was, thro' a consciousness that tho Indians were dissatis fied with the walk, a thing tho whole company seemed to be sensible of, and upon the way, in our return home, frequently expressed them selves to that purpose. And indeed the mi fair ness practised in the walk, both in regard lo the way where,, and the manner how, it was performed, and the dissatisfaction of the Indians concerning it, were the common subjects of conversation in our neighborhood forsomo con siderable lime after- it was done. was then a young man in the prime of life; the novelty of the thing inclined me lo bo a spectator, and as I had been brought up most of my time in Bur lington, the whole transaction was a series of occurrences almost entirely new, and which wiereiore maue tne more strong and lasting im pression on my memory." I give tho affidavit next of Joseph Knowles nephew of the Sherifi it was taken Juno 20th, 1757. "I lived with Timothy Smith at tho time of the walk and went some timo before to car ry the chain and help to clear a road as direct ed by my undo. When ih walk was norforni jed, I was ihen present, mid carried provisions, liquors and bedding. About sunrisinjr, we set out from John Chapman's corner at Wrights town, and travelled until we came to the Forks of Delaware, as noar as I can remember was about one of tho clock the same day. Tho Indians then began to look sullen, and murmured that th5 men walked so fast, and several times that afternoon called out, and said to them, you run; that's not fair, you was to walk. Tho men appointodHo walk paid no re gard to the Indians, but were urged by tho Pro prietary's party, to proceed until the 'sun was down. We were near the Indian town in the Forks; the Indians, denied us going to the town on excuse of a Cantico. We lodged in the woods, that night. Next morning, being dull rainy weather, we set out by the watches, and two of the three, Indians lhat walked the day before, came and travelled with us about two nv three miles, and ihen left us, being very much dissatisfied, and we proceeded by the watches until noon." In order to show both sides of tho question I now give an affidavid made by Nicholas Scull, at that period a Sureyor being sworn he says "that he was present, when James Yeates and Edward Marshall together with some Indians walked one and a half days back in the woods, pursuant to a grant of land made bv the Delawares, to William Penn that the walk was begun at a place near Wrightstown in the county of Bucks, sometime in Septem ber 1737, and continued from the place afore said to some distance beyond the Kiltatinny mountains that he believes the whole distance walked to be not more than 55 miles that Ben jamin Eastburn Surveyor General, Timothy Smith Sheriff of Bucks, and he this affirmant attended from the beginning until it was ended. He well remembers, that particular care was taken not to exceed the time of the day and a half, or 18 hours that he then thought and still thinks the said walk to be fairly performed and that the walkers did not run or go out of a walk at any time nor does he remember, that those Indians who were present, made any complaints of unfair practice that B. Eastburn and this affirmant with some others, lodged the night after the walk was completed, at an In dian town called Pokhopophunk, where there were many of the Delawares, among whom there was one called Captain Harrison, a noted man among the Indians neither he, nor any of the Indians made complaint, or shewed the least uneasiness at any thing dorte, relating to the said walk if they had, he would have heard it." These depositions were taken twen ty years after the "walk" was performed, and it will be observed that Nicholas Scull's recol lections were in direct conflict with those of the other deponents. He was at ihis lime himself Surveyor General, and held his office by appointment from the Penns and though a very respectable man, boih his interests and feelings may be fairly supposed on the side of his employers. As tny purpose is only to re late facts, which I have endeavoured to obtain from the most authentic sources, 1 leave it to the reader, to reconcile the discrepancies the termination of the " walk" was without doubt at Pocono Point, now Tannersville, about 8 miles of Stroudsburg. Tradition gives us numerous particulars in relation to it, but as is usual, accompanied with so many inaccuracies, that it is difficult to sep arate tactirom fiction. Moses Marshall (a son ol idward) who died not many years since stated, that he always understood fiom his fa ther, that a third "walker" was employed one Solomon Jennings, who gave out, when thev arrived at Red Hill in two and a half hours af ter starting that at sundown they arrived on the north side of the Blue Mountain at the Windgap. They found there a great number of Indians collected, expecting the "walk would terminate, but when they learned it was to go hall a day further, they were very angry, and said they were cheated Penn had got all their good land, but that in the spring every In dian was to bring htm a Buckskin, and they would have their land again, and Penn might go to the devil with his poor land. An old In dian said, "no sit down to smoke, no shoot a squirrel, but lun, lun, km all the day long." It has always been supposed, that the extent of the " walk" was 86 miles, but in fact, it could not have exceeded 60 and when we consider lhat a path had been previously cut out and prepared for the occasion tho plot was in no wise remarkable the younger Marshall states that his father was promised Five pounds in Money and 500 acres of land to be laid out any where within the purchase, but that he never was able to obtain the latter of this more, hereafter and I will only remark that tho beautiful little stream, known by his name (Marshall's creek) will perpetuate the memory ol the prominent actor m this sinsru ar transac- o tion. Having by theso means, gone about 30 miles beyond the Lehigh hills, which were so solemnly agreed upon in 1718, and 1728, to be the boundaries, it now remained to draw the line, from the end of the " Walk" to the river Delaware. We have seen, thero was a blank left for tho course of this line: taking tho ad vantage, therefore, of this blank, instoad of run ning tho nearest courso by the rivor, or by an East South East course, which would have been parallel to the lino from which they sot out, they ran by a North East course for above 60 miles across the country to near the Lack awaxen river, and took in the host of tho land, in the Forks of Delaware and the Minisinks. Thus a pretenco was gained for claiming the Note. I find the name of Solomon Jonnings frequently among the oarlior settlers of Monroe County, where ho appears to have been a person of some note. lands included within these lines, viz: the pres ent counties of Northampton, Monroe and Pike, except the most worthless parts of each. These scandalous processings laid the foundation of the Indian discontents which some years after wads, through the intrigues of the French and the refusal of the Whites to redress wrdnua. broke out into War. At least 10 years previ ously several settlements had been mado along the river by the Dutch who by good will of thv Indian proprietors, occupied the fiats situated in Lower and Middle Smithfield townships among these, the most considerable, ware th Van Campens and Dupuis whose descendant still own a portion of their extensive posses sions. These settlements excited the displeas ure of the Proprietaries, as we learn hy a let ter of Secretary Logan, addressed to Thomas Watson, Surveyor of Bucks, dated Nov. 20th 1727, in which he speaks of the presumption of some interlopers from Nw Jersey and Nw York, who had purchased the good will of ih natives on the west side of the Delaware abovn the Poequalin hills (Blue Mountains) and fur ther proceeding to purchase old proprietary rights, presume to lay them there. He warn- them of the illegality and forwards a proclama tion lo the same effect. The Van Campens settled principally on the Jersey side of the river, while Nicholas Dnpm was confirmed in the possession of his Indian purchases in Smithfield, by deeds from William Allen, who a3 we have related, had pocured the title to the tracts in question, from William Penn the younger. Several other Dutch families came on about this period, the Bush's, Vanvliets. Szc. who were principally fromEsopus on the North River and for a long period maintained direct, and constant intercourse with that place, for purposes of trade as r.o road to Philadelphia existed. In 1737 Daniel Brodhead who was a native of Yorkshire (Old England) also em igrated from the neighbourhood of Esopus and took up a large tract immediately adjoin ing the present village of Stroudsburg, though as it appears, against the consent of the native- the descendants of thts gentleman are very numerous in the several counties of "Old North ampton," though the original tract has pasi out of their possession. As soon as a draught of the land acqaired by means of the " Walk" was made by Surveyor General Eastburn, Sur veyors were sent for several years sncceysivfly who laid out large tracts, in the Forks and Min isinks even anions the Indian towns. These were quickly taken up by settlers with most wanton disregard of the rights of the rightful O a owners, wno at length addressed the lolioweu, letter to Jeremiah Langhorne the chief magis trate of the county ( Bucks.) It is dated Smith field Nov. 21st 1740. "To Mr. Jjanshorne and all magistrates of Pennsylvania.. We pray that you would take notice of the great wrong we receive in our lands. Here are about ! 00 families settled on it, for what reason they can not tell they tell us, that Thomas Penn has sold them the land, which we think must be very strange that T. Penn should sell them that which teas never his, for we never sold him this lend. The case was this, that when we were with Penn to treat as usual with his father he beg ging and plaguing us to give him some land, and never gives us leave to treat upon any thing,jtill he wearies us out of our lives but what should we give Penn any land Tor? we never had any thing from him but honest deal ings and civility if he lets us alone, we will let him alone the lands we do own to be ours, bejjin at the mouth of Tohiccon running up along the said branch to the head springs thence up with a straight line to PalquaHng, thence with a straight line to the Blue Moun tain thence to a place called Mahoning, thence along a mountain called Neshamick, thence along the Great Swamp, lo a branch of Dela ware river (Lackawaxen) so along Delaware river to a place where it first begun. All this is our own land, except some tracis we. havo disposed of. The tract of Durham the tract of Nicholas Dupui and that of old Weiser wo have sold, but for tho rest wo have never sold it, and we desire Thomas Penn would talro these people ofi'in peace, that wo mav not ho at the trouble to driVe them ofT for the land we will hold fast with both our hands not i private, but m open view ol all the country, and all our friends and relations, that U tn Eastern Indians, and our Uncles the Six Na tions, and the Mohicans and the Twightwee. Shawnees and Tuscaroras and Taphes the last these all shall be by, and hear us speak, si d we shall stand at our Uncles breasts when u socak. Now Gentlemen and all others W desirn some of your advice and assistance i this affair for we havo lived in hrui!w.-!y friendship, so we desire to continue the im if so bo, we can be righted any manner uf u. So we remainyour friends." In the margin of the letter, the Indians knowledge this to bo done by their directions.) From the above it is seen, that the name of Smithfiold was at this early day, given to th white settlement in the Minisinks the towtv ships is therefore, older than any other in "Old Northampton" before this period, it shouhi have been mentioned, that the Shawnee tril, who occupied the flats and islands in the jpt? -
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