. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . untry. All this would have concerned my father but littlehad it not been for the fact that William Penn hadbecome a Friend, or Quaker, and my father was also ofthe same faith. 12 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA It had been made known by Penn that those Eng-lishmen who wanted to make homes for themselvesin America, where no man should be able to wrongthem because of being Friends, could have land atthe rate of forty shillings for an hundred acres, orfive thousand acres for the sum of one hundredpounds. There were many of our neighbors in Bristol who
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . untry. All this would have concerned my father but littlehad it not been for the fact that William Penn hadbecome a Friend, or Quaker, and my father was also ofthe same faith. 12 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA It had been made known by Penn that those Eng-lishmen who wanted to make homes for themselvesin America, where no man should be able to wrongthem because of being Friends, could have land atthe rate of forty shillings for an hundred acres, orfive thousand acres for the sum of one hundredpounds. There were many of our neighbors in Bristol whocounted to journey overseas to where a man might believe or preach what-soever seemed to himright in the sight ofGod, and many parcelsof land had alreadybeen taken up by themin the new town,wheresoever it mightbe located. My father wras acautious man, however,unwilling to embark inany enterprise, how-ever trifling, until hehad first a clear ideaof what would beexpected, and to that end he went up to London thathe might have speech with William BOUND FOR AMERICA BOUND FOR AMERICA It was my misfortune that I failed then to see WilliamPenn, most like because of my fathers thinking itunseemly to take with him a small lad when he talkedabout matters of business; but before the day wascome to an end, I learned that already were there threeships fitted out for the voyage to America, one to sailfrom our city of Bristol, and the other two from theport of London. That which my father heard from the lips of Wil-liam Penn decided him to have a share in the enter-prise, and because of our not having time totravel back to Bristolbefore the ship due tosail from there wouldhave left port, he hadagreed to take pas-sage in the John andSarah, a fine vesseleven then ready forsea. At that time my mother was in Greenwich, on avisit, but before another day had come she was withus, busied with her preparations for the voyage. It caused me great sorrow because I was not to
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