The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ast and one west of London,remain to be noted before touching the Pilgrim FatherCountry. The vault containing the remains of GeneralOglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, and of his wife is inthe picturesque but modern church at Cranham, nearRomford, Essex ; and at Cranham Hall, where he died in1785, he spent the last years of his active and benevolentlife. A proposal to remove his body to Georgia was aban-doned
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . ast and one west of London,remain to be noted before touching the Pilgrim FatherCountry. The vault containing the remains of GeneralOglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, and of his wife is inthe picturesque but modern church at Cranham, nearRomford, Essex ; and at Cranham Hall, where he died in1785, he spent the last years of his active and benevolentlife. A proposal to remove his body to Georgia was aban-doned as the result of protests from both sides of theAtlantic. AMERICAN PILGRIM SHRINES IN THE PROVINCES. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, can scarcelybe called an American, for he was born, died and is buriedin England ; but he was American in his interests andactivities, and his secluded resting place at Jordans inBuckinghamshire, 23 miles from London, is one of themost visited of American Pilgrim Shrines. Penn rests inthe little Quakers burial ground where his two wives andfive of his children are buried, and adjoining it is the oldmeeting house of the Society of
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