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the fertile river valleys. In Wapwallopen
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American Indian tribes (Lenni-Lenape) Clistowackin
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and Shawnee nations to Hokendauqua Easton
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settlers in rural areas of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Many immigrants
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to Pennsylvania settled in areas that were dotted with Haudenosaunee (Iroquois),
Lenni-Lenape, and Susquehannock towns. As a result of inheriting Penn’s peaceable
vision, and due to a lack of coordinated colonial military effort to dislodge American
Indians, Pennsylvanian colonists mostly negotiated with them to purchase farmland.
At the same time, groups of Lenni-Lenape and Shawnee Indians, who had been
pushed out of New Jersey into the Ohio River valley by pressure from settlers, also moved
into Pennsylvania. They negotiated with colonists, the colonial government, and other
American Indian tribes to establish new farming communities for themselves. All along
the Pennsylvania frontier, the lines between American Indian and European immi-
grant settlements blurred. Many communities prospered in the region, with white set-
tlers exchanging European and colonial goods for access to American Indian-controlled
orchards, waterways, and lands.
Of the migrants attracted to Penn’s colony in the early eighteenth century, Benja-
min Franklin was the most notable. Franklin was apprenticed to his brother, a printer,
an occupation that matched his interest in books, reading, and politics. At age six-
teen, Benjamin published (anonymously) his first essays in his brother’s paper, the
New England Courant. At seventeen, Benjamin tried his luck in New York and then
Philadelphia. His fortunes were fragile, but he combined hard work with a quick wit,
good luck, and political connections, which together led to success. In 1729, Franklin
purchased the Pennsylvania Gazette and became the colony’s official printer.
REVIEW
■ How did colonists’ motivations for settlement in New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania during the late 1600s differ?
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