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September 20, 1737
The conclusion of the Walking Purchase on September 20, 1737
A colony founded on fair dealing hired the three fastest men it could find and turned a land treaty into a footrace. In a day and a half they walked the Lenape out of their homeland — and it was all perfectly, deliberately legal.
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