sion between the two groups, which could cause wars otherwise. He knew that they were different than himself and his followers, but they should be given much respect for they were in the New World centuries before England even knew about it. He included them in jury and everyday actions. He considered them to be equal to him.10 "The Natives I shall consider in their Person, Language, Manners, Religion and Government, with my sence of their Original. For their Persons, they are generally tall, streight, well-built, and of singular Proportion; they tread strong and clever, and mostly walk with Bears-fat clarified, and using no defence against the Sun or Weather, their skins must needs be swarthy; Their Eye is little and black, not unlike a straight-look't Jew. The thick Lip and flat Nose, so frequently with the East-Indians and Blacks, are not common to them; for I have seen as comely European-like faces among them of both, as on your side of the Sea; and truly an Italian Complexion hath not much more of the White, and the Noses of several of them have as much of the Roman.11 He had great respect for the Indians, and understood their culture, so he, from then on, would have an excellent relationship with the Indians. On of the most famous things he had ever done was to have a treaty with the Indians under the Treaty Elm at Shackamaxon in 1682. Although it has been said it actually happened, there are no written records of the occurrence.12 He left the New World to go back to England in August of 1684, knowing he left behind economic wealth, and increasing political and social strengths.13 William Penn suffered from a crippling stroke in 1712, and managed to stay alive in a vegetable state until 1718 when he died.14 He was seventy-four.15 After his death, the Delaware Indians sent his widow a cloak sewn from the skins of wild animals "to protect her whilst passing through the thorny wilderness without her guide."16 The rest of his family k...
