It was an agreement between the Penn family and the Lenape. The Penn family claimed 1,200,000 acres and made the Lenape leave. The Iroquois tribes helped aid the Lenape and the issue was refused.
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Laura McGinnis
11/26/2012 10:46:27 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement between the Penn family, and the Lenape. By it the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to vacate it. The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused.
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Courtney Porter
11/26/2012 10:48:25 pm
The Walking Purchase was an agreement between the Penn family, and the Lenape.It stated that the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to vacate it. The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused
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Kayla Marie Gibbons ;D
11/26/2012 10:49:37 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement between the Lenape and the Penn Family. The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused. By it the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to vacate it.
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Daniel Shirley
11/26/2012 10:50:21 pm
The walking purchase of 1737 was deal made between the Lenape and the Pennsylvanians. They made an agreement that the Pennsylvains could gave as much land as they could cover in one and a half days. The Lenape leaders thought they could only cover about 40 miles. But the Provincual Secretary James Logan hired the towns three fastest runners. Of the three runners only one made it. He had covered 70 miles.
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Shyanne
11/26/2012 10:51:07 pm
At dawn on September 19, 1737, three colonists and three Indians set off on the most peculiar "walk" in Pennsylvania's history. Their purpose was to measure out a land purchase that Thomas Penn, the son and heir of William Penn, claimed his father had made from the Delaware fifty years earlier. A purchase like this couldn't happen today because they wouldn't need to do that because now they measure it with different tools.
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Sara Anderson
11/26/2012 10:52:45 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape. By it the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to leave. The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused.
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Frankie Plowman
11/26/2012 10:53:57 pm
An agreement in for land between the Lenape and the Penn family. By it the Penn family claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres.It also forced the Lenape to vacate the land.The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused
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Cassidy
11/26/2012 10:54:19 pm
They singhed a walking treaty and they walked as far as they could for land.
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Kayla Jorgenson
11/26/2012 10:54:24 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn family. The Penn family and prosprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to vacate it. It proably couldn't happen today because of the technology we have today.
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Alex Williams :)
11/26/2012 10:54:54 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement between the Penn's and the Lenape. The Iroquois tribes helped aid the Lenape but the issue was refused. This could not happen today because there is technology. Technology can measure and tell you how much land there is.
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Caylin Carr
11/26/2012 10:55:00 pm
The purchase was an agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors and the Lenape. They had agreed on however long the person walked they would get that much land. This is famous for his treatment on indians. He falsely represented them with an unsigned draft of a deed. He required 1200 miles of land by walking.
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Sara
11/26/2012 10:55:10 pm
It couldnt happen because of the technology today, and now they use different tools to measure certain things.
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Mike
11/26/2012 10:55:34 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the Lenape (also known as the Delaware). By it the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acers (4,860 km²) and forced the Lenape to vacate it
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Carly Hall
11/26/2012 10:56:17 pm
The walking purchase was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn Family and the proprietors of Pennsylvania. At dawn on September 19, 1737, three colonists and three Indians set off on the most peculiar "walk" in Pennsylvania's history. Their purpose was to measure out a land purchase that Thomas Penn, the son and heir of William Penn, claimed his father had made from the Delaware fifty years earlier. It couldn't happen today because we use different tools then they did back then.
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tylor mcguire
11/26/2012 10:56:31 pm
At dawn on September 19, 1737, three colonists and three Indians set off on the most peculiar "walk" in Pennsylvania's history. Their purpose was to measure out a land purchase that Thomas Penn, the son and heir of William Penn, claimed his father had made from the Delaware fifty years earlier.and it was a land swindle made by pennsalvania authorities to the delaware indians.
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Liz Hobbs (:
11/26/2012 10:56:48 pm
The Walking Purchase was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape.By it the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of 1,200,000 acres and forced the Lenape to vacate it. The Lenape appeal to the Iroquois for aid on the issue was refused.In Delaware Nation Pennsylvania , the current nation claimed 314 acres included in the original purchase.
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keltz
11/26/2012 10:56:54 pm
It was a land swindie made by pennsylvania authorities to the Delaware Indians
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Mitchell
11/26/2012 10:57:55 pm
The Penn family and the Lenape made an agreement in 1937. The Penn family claimed land that forced the Lenape off their land. They were very frustrated about this. The US supreme court refused to hear their case.
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