. A history of Pennsylvania. Home of John Harris at Harriss FerryThe house was built before 1720 Appropriations for Military Defense. — Those who es-caped the Indians fled eastward begging for aid. The As-sembly at once appropriated £50,000 for the Kings use,and voted to raise it by taxing all estates, real and per-sonal, throughout the province, including the estates ofthe proprietaries, which had become extremely governor would not agree to this bill, claiming the pro-prietary estates should be excepted. In vain the AssemblyofTered to tax only the private estates of the Penns. A
. A history of Pennsylvania. Home of John Harris at Harriss FerryThe house was built before 1720 Appropriations for Military Defense. — Those who es-caped the Indians fled eastward begging for aid. The As-sembly at once appropriated £50,000 for the Kings use,and voted to raise it by taxing all estates, real and per-sonal, throughout the province, including the estates ofthe proprietaries, which had become extremely governor would not agree to this bill, claiming the pro-prietary estates should be excepted. In vain the AssemblyofTered to tax only the private estates of the Penns. Anew election took place, and notwithstanding the greatest ^ It is said that among those who were murdered were several members ofthe family of William Marshall, one of Thomas Penns swift walkers. COLONIAL WARS 03 efforts of the go\ernors party, the popular party carried theday. Two-thirds of the new Assembly w<.Te Quakers, andthe other ten members, including Franklin, were in generalsympathy with them, except in regard
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