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 1644 - Yes, date unknown
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William Penn [1, 2] |
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28 Oct 1644 |
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Male |
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Yes, date unknown |
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I58932 |
Cecilie Family |
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20 Sep 2005 |
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| Notes |
William Penn, Jr.
Founder of Pennsylvania |
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is known as the founder of Pennsylvania. Also known as a famous Quaker for his Great Treaty with Delaware. He was in Pennsylvania only three and a half years. But from 1681, when he received the King's charter at the age of thirty-seven, to 1718, when he died, Pennsylvania was one of his chief preoccupations. The growth and well-being of his colony was based on a tradition of religious toleration and freedom under law, fundamental principles of American civil life. Thomas Jefferson called Penn "the greatest law-giver the world has produced."
In 1681 there came a golden opportunity to make his dreams come true. King Charles II, out of "regard to the memorie and meritts of his late father," gave the younger Penn a huge tract of land in North America and named it, in honor of the Admiral, "Pennsylvania," or Penn's Woods.
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- [S904] Gale M. Roberts, is known as the founder of Pennsylvania. Also known as a famous Quaker for his Great Treaty with Delaware., (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=galeroberts&id=I062530).
- [S905] Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, William Penn in Pennsylvania, (http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/William_Penn.htm).
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d. 16 Sep 1670, Wanstead, Essex