Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . der Governor Stuyvesant, subdued and absorbedthem. A large territory west of the Delaware river was granted (1681) byCharles II. to William Penn, son of Admiral Penn, a favorite of the King,. 134 THE GREAT REPUBIJC OF THE WEST: The monarch owed the Admirals estate about $80,000, and the charter forthe territory was given in payment of that debt. The King directed theregion to be called Penn-sylvania, or Penns wooded country, in the modest Quaker objected to this personal distinction, but to no pu
Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . der Governor Stuyvesant, subdued and absorbedthem. A large territory west of the Delaware river was granted (1681) byCharles II. to William Penn, son of Admiral Penn, a favorite of the King,. 134 THE GREAT REPUBIJC OF THE WEST: The monarch owed the Admirals estate about $80,000, and the charter forthe territory was given in payment of that debt. The King directed theregion to be called Penn-sylvania, or Penns wooded country, in the modest Quaker objected to this personal distinction, but to no purpose,William Penn was a zealous member of a sect of Puritans called Friends, and Quakers, in derision, who were suffering persecution in Eng-land at that time. He sent a colony of Friends to his domain, under thegeneral superintendence of William Markham, with instructions to deal kindlyand honestly with every one. The Swedes, who had seated themselves inhis territory, were treated with great consideration and kindness. He alsoproposed a scheme of liberal government for his THOMAS MIFFLIN, FIRST GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. Penn had secured from the Duke of York a proprietary title to the ter-ritory of the (present) State of Delaware (which see) in August, 1682, and inSeptember he sailed for America, with a few emigrants, in the ship the end of six wrecks he landed (October 28th, ) near the site of (pres-ent) New Castle, Delaware, where he was warmly welcomed by about 1000settlers. After conferring with some of the Indian chiefs and sachems, hewent up the Delaware River many miles, in an open boat, to the (present)Kensington District of Philadelphia, where he landed. On a cold day in November, and under the branches of a wide-spreadingelm tree, a number of Indian sachems were assembled, with chiefs and later foliage of the elm was just falling. A moderate council-fire waslighted, and then William Penn concluded a treaty with the barbarians—t
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