. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hantsall the land in Virginia, and by that he meant thewhole country of North America, which was thenknown only as Virginia. To the London Company he gave that part of itin the south, where Jamestown was afterward built,and the Plymouth Company landed in the northernportion where Plymouth was to be laid out. All that was done in the year of grace 1606, andat that time the English people did not know howlarge was this new world of America. The Dutch people, however, sent Henry Hudsonout exploring in 1609, anc^ ne found the river to whichhe g
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hantsall the land in Virginia, and by that he meant thewhole country of North America, which was thenknown only as Virginia. To the London Company he gave that part of itin the south, where Jamestown was afterward built,and the Plymouth Company landed in the northernportion where Plymouth was to be laid out. All that was done in the year of grace 1606, andat that time the English people did not know howlarge was this new world of America. The Dutch people, however, sent Henry Hudsonout exploring in 1609, anc^ ne found the river to whichhe gave his name, whereupon a company like untothe London and Plymouth companies, was formedin Holland under the name of the West India Company, TROUBLE OVER BOUNDARY LINES 133 by which New Amsterdam was settled; but the Eng-lish people captured the town and called it NewYork. TROUBLE OVER THE BOUNDARY LINES Now, as you also know, when King James I died,Charles I became king of England, and in 1632 he c crivu_p/ A NY Cape FearWest 80I* from Greenwich 75. gave to Lord Bal-timore a largetract of land inthat portion ofAmerica wherethe London Com-pany already had possession, setting down exactly, ashe believed, the bounds of the country; but, becauseof the English peoples not knowing very much aboutthis world of America, the lines were considerablymixed. 134 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA ^As I have already told you, Charles II owed the father of our William Penn a large amount of money,near to sixteen thousand pounds, as I have heard itsaid, and to pay that debt, he gave to the son allthe country which was afterward named Pennsyl-vania. Therefore, as you can see, our William owned theland between that part of the country the king gave toLord Baltimore and the Dutch settlement whichhad been captured from the West India Company;but exactly where the property of one left off and theother began, nobody seemed able to make out. You know, from what I have set down, that ourWilliam went over to New
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