, whereupon a deed was �given to the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II., which included a vast territory, claimed to embrace a large part of New England, and what is now within New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania and Delaware. The name of the New Netherlands was changed to New York. The deed given to

, another brother.29 In 1888 the noted local historian Samuel Evans confirmed many of her observations with regard to the brick house, adding: "Forty years ago the writer laid new floors in the first story. The old flooring boards was oak, and not tongued or grooved, merely butted together."' Nonetheless

. Treaties with them were the only ones "never sworn to and never broken." He became endeared to the Indians who named him Brother Onas, a name ever afterwards mentioned in Indian conferences with a feeling of affection and regard. (Onas in the Indian language signified pen—a writing in- strument.) Penn's