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Title: A tour of four great rivers; the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769; being the journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Richard, 1735-1803. (from old catalog) Halsey, Francis Whiting, 1851- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Pioneers -- Middle Atlantic States Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) Mohawk River (N.Y.) Susquehanna River Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) New York (State) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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settlers hadgone to the fertile lands further north. In 1678,when the line was drawn dividing West Jerseyfrom East Jersey, the peopling of the northern partof this valley was kept well in mind. In order thatWest Jersey might include the entire valley south ofwhat should be claimed by New York, the line wasmade to run from Little Egg Harbor on the Atlan-tic coast ten miles above Atlantic City, in a straightline northwest, to Cushietunk, on the Delaware.Cushietunk was forty miles above Port Jervis, andis now known as Cochecton, a station on the mainline of the Erie Railway.1 For half a century afterwards Indians continuedto dwell on the Delaware. In 171 8 a deed of re-lease to the Forks of the Delaware2 was given by 1 Parts of this line still survive on the New Jersey map as county lines,notably those between Ocean and Burlington, Somerset and HunterdonCounties. 2 Now Easton; the Lehigh, which flows into the Delaware at this point,being then called the West Branch of the Delaware. lxiv
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PIONEERS OF THE DELAWARE them and settlements followed. What was knownas the Walking Purchase belongs to a later period.The character of this purchase is indicated by its name.A man familiar with the land and capable of pedes-trian feats was employed to secure as much land aspossible from the Indians in a walk during the timearranged for in the agreement. Indians, however,were not willing to leave this territory altogether,and becoming troublesome, the Iroquois, in 1746,were appealed to for aid in forcing them away.The Delawares being subject to the Iroquois, werefinally obliged to depart. They then formed villagesfurther west, mainly on the Susquehanna aboutWyoming. More than a thousand Palatine Germans, between1725 and 1740, came to the Delaware neighbor-hood of which the Forks were the center. Asearly as 1752 their commercial needs had created apromising village of about forty souls, now knownas Easton, and ten years later its population hadincreased to 250, mostly Germans.1 Elsewh

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