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Show 45 596 INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES [ETH.ANN.18 October 2, 1085, a deed from twelve "Indian kings, shackamakers"1 to all the lands from Quing Quingus (or Duck) creek unto Upland (Chester) creek, all along by the west side of Delaware river, and so between said creeks backward as far as a man can ride in two days with a horse. June 15, 1692, deed from four "kings" to the land "lying between Neshamina and Poquessing" upon the Delaware and extending backward to the utmost bounds of the province. In his note on this purchase, Smith remarks that "these limits on the Deleware, are precisely defined. The Poquessing, a name still retained (as is Neshaminey), is the original boundary between the counties of Philadelphia and Bucks, as ascertained in 1G85." July 5,1G97, deed from the great sachem Tamiuy, his brother and sons, to the lands between Pemmopeck and Neshaminey creeks, extending iu length from the Delaware "so farr as a horse can travel in two summer dayes, and to carry its breadth according as the several courses of the said two creeks will admit. And when the said creeks do so branch that the main branches or bodies thereof cannot be discovered, then the tract of land hereby granted shall stretch forth unto a direct course on each side and so carry on the ffull breadth to the extent of the length thereof." September 13,1700, deed from "Widaagh alias Orytyagh and An-daggy- junk-quagk kings or Sachems of the Susquehannagh Indians," for the Susquehanna river and all the islands therein, and all the lands on both sides thereof and "next adjoining to ye same, extending to the utmost confines of the lands which are, or formerly were the right of the people or nation called the Susquehannagh Indians, or by what name soever they were called or known thereof." As this embraced the same lands that Penu had purchased in 1696 of Colonel Dongan, who claimed to have purchased it of the Indians, a clause confirming that sale was added in the deed. Penn was very anxious to secure an undisputed right to Susquehanna river and the immediate lands along its course through the province, therefore no opportunity was lost to bring this title to the notice of the Indians in his dealings with them. The claim of the Five Nations was finally extinguished by the treaty at Philadelphia in 1736. "About this period," says Smith, " the Indian purchases become more important, and the boundaries more certain and defined, and principles were established, and acquired the force of settled law, of deep interest to landholders; and which have been since uniformly recognized, aud at this moment govern aud control our judicial tribunals." By a deed of September 17,1718, from sundry Delaware chiefs, all the lands between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers from Duck creek to the mountains on this side of Lechay [Lehigh] were granted, and all former deeds for lands iu these bounds were confirmed. By ' I t is uecir.eu unnecessary to give t i e names of these Indians. |