Walking Purchase

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:farmer
gptkbp:areaAcquired approximately 1,200,000 acres
gptkbp:category 18th-century treaties
gptkbp:controversy deceptive walking method used
gptkbp:date 1737
gptkbp:documentedIn colonial records
gptkbp:effect Lenape migration westward
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Walking Purchase
gptkbp:involvedIn gptkb:Lenape
gptkb:Pennsylvania_colonial_government
gptkbp:legacy long-term disputes between settlers and Native Americans
gptkbp:location gptkb:Pennsylvania
gptkbp:method land measured by distance a man could walk in a day and a half
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:William_Penn
gptkb:John_Penn
gptkb:James_Logan
gptkb:Edward_Marshall
gptkb:Thomas_Penn
Native American land rights
Colonial Pennsylvania history
gptkbp:resultedIn dispossession of Lenape lands
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4