Penn, William

1. A colonist of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; the founder of Pennsylvania . Penn, the son of a British admiral, became a Quaker as a young man. The British government repaid a debt to Penn by giving him title to what is now Pennsylvania, where he established a colony with broad religious toleration. Many Quakers, who were persecuted in England , settled in Pennsylvania. Penn was known for his friendly relations with the Native American tribes in his colony.

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William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.

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There were now many rich and clever people among them besides William Penn, who was a scholar and a preacher.

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William Penn says of him: "The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld was his in prayer."

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He then travels down across the very country which Friends afterwards settled under the leadership of William Penn.

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William Penn was one of the best and wisest rulers that had to do with the settlement of our country.

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