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nn, was distinguished in the British navy as an able admiral, being commander of the fleet at the reduction of Jamaica i

nt member of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, he was punished by fine for nonconformity, and in the succeeding year, for pertinacious adherence to his opinions, was expelled from the college. His father, considering that his s

ted sect of Quakers that he was arrested at a meeting in Cork and imprisoned by the authorities, who at last restored him to liberty at the intercession of some influential persons. He returned to England, when he had a violent altercation with his father, who

on the passing of the Conventicle Act, again sent to prison in Newgate,-from which he was liberated by the interest of his father, who about this time became reconciled to him, and, dying some time

est of the now Delaware. In consideration of his father's services, and of a debt of sixteen thousand pounds due the admiral at his decease, the grant was readily made, to which the Duke of York added by cession a neighboring

to Robert Turner, in which he gives the particulars of the nami

Welsh for a head, as Penmanmoire in Wales, and Penrith in Cumberland, and Penn in Buckinghamshire, the highest land in England, called this Pennsylvania, which is the high or head woodlands; for I proposed, when the secretary, a Welshman refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it, and though I much opposed

. Being thus constituted absolute proprietor and governor of Pennsylvania, Penn published "A Brief Account of the Province," proposing terms of settlement to such as might choose to remove thither; in which land was offered to purchaser

d in England, occupied in forming a government fo

e of Pennsylvania, together with Certain Laws, &c.," in the preface to which is

any with about one hundred colonists, mostly Quakers from his own neighborhood, of which numbe

he dangers to which a new colony is usually subject, and received with demonstrations of satisfaction the new settlers who arrived at New Castle October 24, 1682. Immediately on his arrival, Penn proceeded to establish his government over the colony, and the first assembly was convened at Chester on

or their lands, and departed for their homes full of love and admiration for the great and good Onas, as they called Penn. For seventy years this simple but sincere treaty remained inviolate: of it Voltaire says, "It was the only treaty between these people and the Christians that was not ratified by an oath, and which was never broken." Certain it is that Penn's strict obse

ate was in dispute, being claimed by some Swedes, who were induced to relinquish their claim for a larger portion of land elsewhere. The city was located between Wicacoa, now Southwark, and Shackamaxon,-two miles in length and one in breadth, with a navigable river at each end,-and was pl

olony. The sentence discovers the same spirit of mildness and equity which at this day constitutes the praise and the efficacy of the criminal code of the State. He was to pay a fine of ￡40 towards the building of

James II., which occurred shortly after Penn's arrival in England in 1684. The troubles in that country during the reign of James involved Penn and his colony in difficulty, and after the re

ived of his government of Pennsylvania, which was annexed i

honorably acquitted of all charges, religious as well as political, which had been brought against

f our subject which laid the foundation for a system of communication that has, ever since the introduction of trade and commerce,

interested in the following letter, which is on file in the

ated Indian chief. The letter is written on a piece of parchment about two and a half feet wide by three feet in length. The letters are about an inch in length, slightly inclined to the right, bold, and of a very symmetrical formation. The first letters of the first and second lines are large and highly ornamented,-

will say that the people who come with me are a just, plain and honest people, that neither make war upon others nor fear war from others, because they are just. I have set up a Society of Traders in my Province to traffic with thee and thy people for your commodities, that you may be furnished with that which is good at reasonable rates. And the Society hath ordered their President to tr

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eodore Leh

f the fourth month,