A history of the United States for schools . penns §63- THE MIDDLE ZONE. 141 mans and Scotch-Irish, with a considerable number ofSwedes, Welsh, and French. It was not long beforePennsylvania had outgrown all the other colonies exceptMassachusetts and penns slate-koof Of all the colonies, this was the only one that had noseacoast, and as Penn wanted free access to „ Penn the ocean, he secured from the Duke of York obtainsthe proprietorship of Delaware, which, eversince its conquest by Stuyvesant, had formed a part ofNew Netherland. Until the United States became inde
A history of the United States for schools . penns §63- THE MIDDLE ZONE. 141 mans and Scotch-Irish, with a considerable number ofSwedes, Welsh, and French. It was not long beforePennsylvania had outgrown all the other colonies exceptMassachusetts and penns slate-koof Of all the colonies, this was the only one that had noseacoast, and as Penn wanted free access to „ Penn the ocean, he secured from the Duke of York obtainsthe proprietorship of Delaware, which, eversince its conquest by Stuyvesant, had formed a part ofNew Netherland. Until the United States became inde-pendent, Pennsylvania and Delaware continued under thesame proprietary government, though, after 1702, theywere distinct provinces, each with its own legislature. 1 William Penn lived in this house in 1699-1701. It stood on SecondStreet, between Chestnut and Walnut, at the southeast corner of NorrissAlley. Here his son, John Penn, was born. The house was pulled downin 1868. 142 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. VIL The proprietor-ship of Pennsyl-vania was heredi-tary in the Pennfamily, as that ofMaryland was he-reditary with theCalverts. Quar-rels sometimesarose between thetwo neighbors con-cerning the boun-dary line betweenthem. In 1763-67,the line was final
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