. A history of Pennsylvania. the compara-tively light penalties inflicted for crime, led not only goodand quiet persons to seek the colony, but also many of thecriminal class. Privateers, common in those days, also foundin Delaware Bay a place of refuge where it was not likely that ^ Penn never formally sanctioned ihis constitution, though he did notoppose it. 54 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA they would be molested by the authorities. On one occasionthey attacked and plundered the little town of Lewes, andthey also robbed the inhabitants along the Bay and of the colonists, and Markham in
. A history of Pennsylvania. the compara-tively light penalties inflicted for crime, led not only goodand quiet persons to seek the colony, but also many of thecriminal class. Privateers, common in those days, also foundin Delaware Bay a place of refuge where it was not likely that ^ Penn never formally sanctioned ihis constitution, though he did notoppose it. 54 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA they would be molested by the authorities. On one occasionthey attacked and plundered the little town of Lewes, andthey also robbed the inhabitants along the Bay and of the colonists, and Markham in particular, werecharged with being paid by the pirates for conniving atthese acts. The latter indignantly repudiated the charge,for which, so far as appears, no proof was brought had to appear before the Board of Trade in Englandto answer these charges. While Penn did not believe inMarkhams guilt, he was ordered to dismiss him. This hedid by returning to Pennsylvania (1699) and taking thegovernment upon Old Quaker Meeting House Erected in 1695, at the corner of Second and MarketStreets, Philadelphia. The building at the right, inthe middle of the street, is the court house. CHAPTER VI PENNS SECOND VISIT TO PENNSYLVANIA Penn Leaves England, 1699; James Logan. - On the gth of September, 1699, Penn set sail in the ship Can-terbury from Cowes in the Isle of Wight, accompanied by hiswife ^ and his daughter Letitia. Among his fellow travelerswas James Logan, a young man of twenty-five, whom he hadappointed as his secretary. Logan was the son of Scotchparents who had moved to Lurgan, Ireland, where their sonwas born. For fifty years Logan was prominent in all theaffairs of the colony, for he was secretary, then agent of thePenn family, commissioner of property, chief justice, twoyears acting governor, and, most of the time a member of thegovernors council. His father had been a schoohnasterand James Logan had been well educated.^ He collected oneof the largest a
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