Our first century . and had become a devotee oftheir religion. His father, who had been a fighter allhis life, was profoundly disgusted with his sons adoptionof a religion which condemned all fighting, and conse-quently for a time the father and son were at outs witheach other. After a time however they became recon-ciled, and the elder Penn at his death left to his son hisgreat properties, including a vast debt owed to him bythe King of England. In 1681, Charles II agreed to pay this debt to WilliamPenn the younger, by giving him a grant of forty thou-sand square miles of land in America, lyi
Our first century . and had become a devotee oftheir religion. His father, who had been a fighter allhis life, was profoundly disgusted with his sons adoptionof a religion which condemned all fighting, and conse-quently for a time the father and son were at outs witheach other. After a time however they became recon-ciled, and the elder Penn at his death left to his son hisgreat properties, including a vast debt owed to him bythe King of England. In 1681, Charles II agreed to pay this debt to WilliamPenn the younger, by giving him a grant of forty thou-sand square miles of land in America, lying west ofthe Delaware River—substantially the region now knownas the state of Pennsylvania. That name the king gave 132 OUR FIRST CENTURY to it in honor, not of the WilUam Penn to whom hegranted it, but of the elder, the Admiral William Penn,who had served England so well in her wars. WilliamPenn immediately sent out some emigrants to take pos-session of the country and they landed where Philadel-phia now William Penn. The region w^as a fertile and fruitful one, and tempt-ing to the mind even at that time, though its vastmineral wealth in coal and iron was not then dreamedof. It had no sea coast, however, and no secure outletto the sea. To provide against this difficulty Pennbought from the Duke of York the little strip of country NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA 133 along the Delaware River, which is now a part of thestate of Delaware, thus securing an ocean outlet for hiscolony. During the next year after Penns first colonists hadsettled themselves at Philadelphia he, himself, came outto take possession there and to become, as he was calledin that time, the Quaker King. The people of his faith were subjected at that time tomuch persecution in England, and it was his purpose toprovide for them in America a refuge where they mightpreach and practice their religion without let or hin-drance. When Penn landed in the colony, he had a hundredof his adherents with him and oth
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