. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . ent him to Irelandto look after some lands, hoping that the continued separationwould cause him to forget his new beliefs. While in Ireland,young Penn again metThomas Loe and fromthat time became an ac-tive member of the so-ciety, going about preach-ing, for which he wasimprisoned several afterwards becamereconciled to his father,and on the death of theadmiral was left muchwealth. William Penn, now arich man, resolved to helphis oppre
. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . ent him to Irelandto look after some lands, hoping that the continued separationwould cause him to forget his new beliefs. While in Ireland,young Penn again metThomas Loe and fromthat time became an ac-tive member of the so-ciety, going about preach-ing, for which he wasimprisoned several afterwards becamereconciled to his father,and on the death of theadmiral was left muchwealth. William Penn, now arich man, resolved to helphis oppressed Quakerbrethren. Having foundit impossible to collect inmoney a debt which theKing had owed his father,Penn proposed that theKing should give him atract of land in Penns great delight,the King agreed to give him about forty thousand square miles of land along the Dela-ware River, west of the Jerseys. Penn wished to call his newprovince Sylvania, or the Woodland, to which the Kiiig insistedon prefixing the name Penn in honor of the admiral. CharlesII, who was King at the time, signed the charter giving Pennthe land on March 4, Portrait of William Penn as a Young Man This, the so-called Armor Portrait, waspainted when Penn was twenty-two yearsold, while he was looking after his fathersaffairs in Ireland. It is now in the rooms ofthe Pennsylvania Historical Society. ELEMENTARY HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT Penn Establishes his Colony. Immediately Penn set aboutsecuring colonists for his new province. He had made severaltrips into Holland and had traveled up the Rhine Valley tryingto convert the people to Quakerism. Many of the people becameQuakers and many more came to know Penn. He wrote letters and had pamphletsprinted telling theseQuakers of the newcolony and the ad-vantages of settlingwhere they could getcheap land and befree from oppressionand could live underlaws which they them-selves .would be per-mitted to make. Meanwhile Pennwas also engaged inorganizing m
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