Young folks' history of the United States . t be appointed. lOO YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The two provinces were then made into one, thoughthey had separate legislatures for a long time. FreePrinceton schools Were introduced ; and the College of New Jer-sey, now Princeton College, was founded in 1746. Thecolony remained quiet and at peace, down to the timeof the American Revolution. In all its borders,said a traveller, there is not a poor body, nor onethat wants. CHAPTER XII. THE FRIENDS IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND THESWEDES IN DELAWARE. PENNSYLVANIA. PENNSYLVANIAwas founded in adifferent way
Young folks' history of the United States . t be appointed. lOO YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The two provinces were then made into one, thoughthey had separate legislatures for a long time. FreePrinceton schools Were introduced ; and the College of New Jer-sey, now Princeton College, was founded in 1746. Thecolony remained quiet and at peace, down to the timeof the American Revolution. In all its borders,said a traveller, there is not a poor body, nor onethat wants. CHAPTER XII. THE FRIENDS IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND THESWEDES IN DELAWARE. PENNSYLVANIA. PENNSYLVANIAwas founded in adifferent way from anyof the other colonies,for it was entirelyplanned by one greatand good man, whowas the proprietor ofthe soil where the col-ony was name was WilliamPenn. He was a young-Englishman, h i g h 1 yeducated, and had studied at Ox-ford University, andat a college in France ;but he was expelledfrom Oxford for tak- ^ing part in Quaker ^^^^= ° ^^^ ^^ and in some trouble that grew out of them; lOI. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii» I02 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. His grantof land. The name. Previoushistory. Arrival ofPenn, and he was afterwards imprisoned several times forthe same offence. He became a very thoughtful andconscientious man. It was said as a joke, among hisformer fashionable friends, that William Penn wasa Quaker, or some very melancholy thing. He spenthis money freely in aiding those who were punished forconscience sake; and finally he resolved to found acolony in America, where such persecuted people couldtake refuge. It happened that his father, who was a famous ad-miral in the English navy, had left, at his death, aclaim for a large sum of money which he had lent toCharles II. before he came to the throne; and WilliamPenn proposed to the king to give him a province inAmerica instead of that money. This the king wasvery glad to do; for he had plenty of American lands,and very little of English gold and silver. So WilliamPenn became t
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