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A Piece of the Shakamaxon Elm

On November 23, 2017May 14, 2021 By trinitycollegelibrary1695In Features, Library Curios1 Comment

The curio we are exhibiting over the next few weeks is reputedly a piece of the elm tree under which the English Quaker, William Penn signed a treaty with the Lenni Lepae (Delaware) Indians in late November 1682. Penn had obtained a charter to colonise a tract of land in the area from King Charles …

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