. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. ion passed into the con-trol of the Duke of York. In 1682 Penn secureda grant of it, and after that it was known as thelower counties of Pennsylvania until Delaware became a separate, though smalland unimportant, colony. 252 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. CHAPTER XX. THE PROVINCE OF PENNS WOODS. Philadelphia is at last laid out, to the gen-eral content of those here. These words werein a letter written in 1683 to Quakers in England by William Penn. You know thatPhiladelphia is alarge city in thesoutheastern part ofPennsylvania. Iwond
. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. ion passed into the con-trol of the Duke of York. In 1682 Penn secureda grant of it, and after that it was known as thelower counties of Pennsylvania until Delaware became a separate, though smalland unimportant, colony. 252 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. CHAPTER XX. THE PROVINCE OF PENNS WOODS. Philadelphia is at last laid out, to the gen-eral content of those here. These words werein a letter written in 1683 to Quakers in England by William Penn. You know thatPhiladelphia is alarge city in thesoutheastern part ofPennsylvania. Iwonder if you haveever heard it calledthe Quaker settlers were members of the vSociety of Friends,who were commonly called Quakers. First, youwill want to know who they were, and what theirname meant. You remember that the Pilgrimswho came to Plymouth, and the Puritans whocame to Massachusetts Bay, were people who werenot satisfied with the Church of England. Theywanted simpler forms and more preaching. TheQuakers were English people who wanted still. EARLIEST DAYS IN AMERICA. 253 more simple life, with peace and o-ood will to-ward everyone. Some of their manners growingout of these ideas, seemed very odd to the rest ofthe world. In England they were so disliked thatthe Quakers were persecuted even more than anyof the Puritans had been. They had a very hardtime ; but they were often saved from much hardertimes by a certain young man of whom Charles fond, and whose father was the famous Ad-miral Penn. You all know his name—WilliamPenn. He had many friends at the royal court,but handsome young Penn did not care for the gaylife he might lead with these friends nearly somuch as he cared to work for the Quakers andtheir belief. THE aUAKER BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS. Quakers believed that a persons ability to preachcame not alone through education, but as a directgift from God ; and they felt that a power whichcame so freely ought to be given freely. So theyhad no regular and
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