[16] Those who desire to know the precise character of the celebrated Elm-tree Treaty, should read the Memoir on its history, in vol. 3, part 2, p. 145 of the Memoirs of the Pennsylvania Hist. Soc., written by the late Mr. Du Ponceau, and Mr. Joshua Francis Fisher. It is one of the finest specimen of minute, exhaustive, historical analysis, with which I am acquainted. These gentlemen, prove, I think, conclusively, that the Treaty was altogether one of amity and friendship, and was entirely unconnected with the purchase of lands.
[17] Janney's Life of Penn, 163.
[18] See 2nd Bozman Hist. Md. p. 616—note XLIII, Conditions, &c.
[19] 2d Bozman, 597, and Orig. MS. in Md. His. Soc.