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William Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania boulderer_poster The Publicans Contraption — PatentWilliam Penn's Treaty With the Indians When He Founded the Province of Pennsylvania renders the elm at Shackamaxon as Quaker mythology Penn in plain coat extending wampum to the Lenape, an unsigned compact later invoked as the founding handshake of a province built, briefly, on the fiction of mutual consent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional