[864] [The elm-tree known as the Treaty-tree which was long venerated as the one under which the interview was held, was blown down in 1810, and a picture of it taken in 1809 is preserved in the Historical Society. (Cf. Catalogue of Paintings, etc., belonging to the Historical Society, no. 167. Cf. views in Gay’s Popular History of the United States, ii. 493; Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia; one of the latter part of the last century in Pennsylvania Magazine of History, iv. 186.) For the monument on the spot, see Lossing’s Field Book of the Revolution, ii. 254. It is well known that Benjamin West made the scene of the treaty the subject of a large historical painting. The original first deed given by the Indians to Markham is in the possession of the Historical Society. Cf. Catalogue of Paintings, etc., belonging to the Historical Society, no. 174.
William Rawle’s address before the Pennsylvania Historical Society in 1825 was upon Penn’s method of dealing with the Indians as compared with the customs obtaining in the other colonies. (Cf. Historical Magazine, vi. 64.) Fac-similes of the marks of many Indian chiefs, as put to documents from 1682 to 1785, are given in Pennsylvania Archives, vol. i.—Ed.]
[865] [Cf. also Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. vii. There is a map illustrating the boundary dispute in Pennsylvania Archives (1739), i. 595; cf. Neill’s Terra Maria, chap. v., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania, ii. 200, and Mr. Brantley’s chapter in the present volume.—Ed.]
[866] S. R. Gardiner’s Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage, i. 164.
[867] S. R. Gardiner’s Personal Government of Charles I., ii. 290.
[868] In the Maryland Historical Society are preserved the original manuscript records of courts baron and leet held in St. Clement’s manor at different times from 1659 to 1672.
[869] Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. London, 1878, iii. 362.
[870] [See Memorial History of Boston, i. p. 278.—Ed.]
[871] At a session of the Assembly held in Januuary, 1648, an incident occurred which annalists have generally deemed worthy of mention as the first instance of a demand of political rights for women. Miss Margaret Brent—who was the administratix of Governor Calvert, and as such held to be the attorney, in fact, of Lord Baltimore—applied to the Assembly to have a vote in the House for herself, and another as his lordship’s attorney.
