A first book in American history with European beginnings . any times for writingabout and preaching the Quaker religion. Penns father soon saw that his son was determinedto remain a Quaker, and a very true one. So once morehe permitted him to come home and never again inter-fered with his religious belief. THE SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA The Quakers, persecuted everywhere, looked long-ingly toward America as a place where they might livein peace and do Gods will as they saw it. Now King Charles owed William Penns father a debtof sixteen thousand pounds. As the King knew howto make debts a grea
A first book in American history with European beginnings . any times for writingabout and preaching the Quaker religion. Penns father soon saw that his son was determinedto remain a Quaker, and a very true one. So once morehe permitted him to come home and never again inter-fered with his religious belief. THE SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA The Quakers, persecuted everywhere, looked long-ingly toward America as a place where they might livein peace and do Gods will as they saw it. Now King Charles owed William Penns father a debtof sixteen thousand pounds. As the King knew howto make debts a great deal better than how to pay them,the debt was still unpaid when Admiral Penn died. In 1680 William Penn went to the King and asked himfor a tract of land in America. The idea pleased Charles 159 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY very much. It was far easier to give away a piece ofwoodland which he had never seen and knew nothingabout than it would have been to raise the money to paythe debt. So in 1681 he gave Penn a charter, granting him a tract of land. north of Maryland andbounded on the eastby the Delaware called hisprovince Sylvania/which is a Latin namemeaning wood-land/ The King addedPenn to this name,making it Penn-sylvania. William didnot approve of this, forhe thought that itlooked like vanity, butCharles laughed andsaid, We are not nam-ing the provinceto honor you, but tohonor the Admiral, yournoble father. So Pennhad to be long, Penn had sent to his province twenty shipswith about three thousand people, most of them 1682 he came himself, and sailed up the Delaware Riveruntil he came to Chester, where some of his settlers hadalready built their homes. Here he called an assemblyof the people to make the laws for their colony. After these laws were made Penn set out to select a sitefor the city which he had planned before sailing from 160 The First Settlements of Penn-sylvania and New Jersey. WILLIAM PENN England. He chose a neck o
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