A powerful granary worker able to hoist multiple bags of wheat upon his shoulders -- just who was this man?  The anecdote is a recollection that describes a man who achieved a high degree of fame:  Solomon Jennings (one of the three walkers selected to participate in the famous 1737 Walking Purchase).

As the survey map below indicates, Jennings lived right next to what was once called "Nicolas Island".  In effect, Solomon Jennings was Nicholas Dupui's immediate neighbor, and was likely the very man employed to manage Dupui's grist mill operations.

Jenning's attendance at the Walking Purchase was doubtless to keep an eye on things as related to Dupui's interest in the matter.

Dupui, of course, had purchased land from the Delaware, but had quickly realized (owing to his conversations with Lenape chief Lapowingo), that the colony had never actually bought the land from the Delaware tribe. This was a major issue, as it meant that the title chain for Dupui's property was illegitimate -- legitimacy required a sale on the part of the indigenous community to the colonial government that would then be entitled to sell it off to individual purchasers. Accordingly, we eventually find Dupui in Philadelphia, along with Lapowingo, at a meeting with the Pennsylvania Proprietor wherein the notion of the Walking Purchase was first broached. While Jennings may have been a muscular man, one probably couldn't say that he had a runner's physique...