A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . quence. He was sent by hisfather to Paris, where he became an accomplished man of the , however, though an intimate friend of the king and hisbrother, he became a Friend, so greatly displeasing his father that hewas turned out of his home. He was several times imprisoned forhis belief, but strongly asserted in the courts the principle of religiousliberty, and travelled through parts of Europe preaching his became heir to a considerable fortune on the death of his father,but lost heavily through
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . quence. He was sent by hisfather to Paris, where he became an accomplished man of the , however, though an intimate friend of the king and hisbrother, he became a Friend, so greatly displeasing his father that hewas turned out of his home. He was several times imprisoned forhis belief, but strongly asserted in the courts the principle of religiousliberty, and travelled through parts of Europe preaching his became heir to a considerable fortune on the death of his father,but lost heavily through his colonizing experiment, and was eventuallyimprisoned for debt. He died in 1718. ^ In further return for his grant, Penn agreed to give the kingannually two beaver-sVins and one-fifth of all the gold and silver thatwere mined. 112 THE ERA OF SETTLEMENT. nists spent the winter at a Swedish settlement on theDelaware called Upland, since known as Chester. Thesite of a new city had already been chosen, on the tract ofland between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, and the. Early Philadelphia. city named and planned. It was named Philadelphia, aBible name signifying Brotherly Love. The streets wereto be broad and to cross each other at right angles, and theprincipal ones to be named after the trees of the many of the emigrants spent their first winter in holesdug in the river-bank for shelter. Penn Seeks his Colony.—In 1682, Penn himself crossedthe ocean in the ship Welcome, bringing with him a com-pany of a hundred colonists of his own faith to found thecity of Philadelphia. He first landed at New Castle, in tb-territory granted him by the Duke of York. Here he waspresented with a piece of turf in which was a twig, tosignify that the land and its products were his, and with adish of water, to signify that he owned the river. Finallyhe was given the keys of the fort. The Great Law.—Proceeding to Upland, which he namedChester, he called an assembly, and with its a
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