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In 1737, James Logan, secretary to the proprietors of Pennsylvania, hired three men to measure an undertermined area of land, purchased from the Lenape Indians in 1686, which began in Wrightstown and extended as far north as a man could walk in a day and a half. Edward Marshall, Solomon Jennings and James Yeates left Wrightstown the morning of Sept. 19, 1737. Jennings and Yeates dropped out along the way, but Marshall, accompanied by men on horseback with provisions, continued at a fast pace and the next day reached a point near today's Jim Thorpe, a distance of about 65 miles. The Walking Purchase caused resentment among Indians who felt they had been tricked by the white men...!

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