Note 864 — Chapter XII · (continued 2)

[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.