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What did the walking treaty of 1737 do?

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the walking purchase or treaty know as was a agreement between the penn family the proprietors of pennsylvania, and the lenape. by it the penn family and proprietors or penn family and the proprietors claimed an area or 1,200,000 acres and forced the lenapes to vacate it

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It significantly increased the size of the Pennsylvania colony, is the right answer.

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The Walking Treaty or the Walking Purchase was an agreement that took place in the year 1737 between the Penn family and the Lenape indigenous Indians. Through this treaty, the Penn family and proprietaries demanded a region of 1,200,000 acres between the West New Jersey region to the east of the Province of New Jersey and the Province of Pennsylvania and forced the Lenape to abandon it.

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