17th century ,
governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775, , who sold regions of present-day eastern
Pennsylvania and western
New Jersey to the sons of
William Penn in the Walking Purchase, , erected in 1949 by the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission commemorating the Walking Purchase In 1681, the founder of the
Province of Pennsylvania,
William Penn, enjoyed a reputation for fair dealing with the
Lenape. reaching the modern vicinity of present-day
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, 70 miles (113 km) to the north. At the end of the walk, Sheriff Smith drew a perpendicular line back toward the northeast, and claimed all the land east of these two lines ending at the
Delaware River that now represents the border between eastern
Pennsylvania and western
New Jersey. This resulted in an area of 1,200,932 acres (4,860 km2), only slightly smaller than the size of
Rhode Island, located in seven present-day counties in eastern Pennsylvania:
Pike,
Monroe,
Carbon,
Schuylkill,
Northampton,
Lehigh, and
Bucks. The Delaware Tribe leaders appealed for assistance to the
Iroquois confederacy tribe to the north, who claimed hegemony over the
Delaware River, but the Iroquois leaders decided that it was not in their best interest to intervene on behalf of their southern neighbors since Iroquois leader
Captain Logan already made a deal with the Iroquois to support the colonial side. As a result, the Lenape vacated the Walking Purchase lands in present-day eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey. Lenape chiefs
Lappawinsoe, Manawkyhickon,
Sassoonan,
Nenatcheehunt, and others continued protesting the arrangement, since the Lenape were forced into
Shamokin and
Wyoming River valleys, which were already crowded with other displaced tribes. Some Lenape later moved further west into the
Ohio Country in present-day
Western Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and to southern and western regions in colonial
New France in present-day
Quebec. Because of the Walking Purchase, the Lenape grew to distrust the
Pennsylvania government, and later brought suit in federal court. ==
Delaware Nation v. Pennsylvania==