. A history of Pennsylvania. the document signed March 4, The onlypayment asked in return was two beaver skins to be deliv-ered at our said castle of Windsor on the first day of Januaryof every year, and also the fifth part of all the gold and silverore that might be found in the territory. Penns Motives in establishing Pennsylvania. — It hasoften been said that Penns chief motive in seeking to estab-lish a colony in America was to afford a refuge for persecutedQuakers. Unquestionably this must have been a strongmotive, but it was not the only one. There is no doubt thathe also saw in A
. A history of Pennsylvania. the document signed March 4, The onlypayment asked in return was two beaver skins to be deliv-ered at our said castle of Windsor on the first day of Januaryof every year, and also the fifth part of all the gold and silverore that might be found in the territory. Penns Motives in establishing Pennsylvania. — It hasoften been said that Penns chief motive in seeking to estab-lish a colony in America was to afford a refuge for persecutedQuakers. Unquestionably this must have been a strongmotive, but it was not the only one. There is no doubt thathe also saw in America the opportunity to put into practicethe theories of government which he had long held and ^ Owing to the ignorance which prevailed in regard to hititude and longi-tude, and boundaries in the New World, the results of the examination werefar from being accurate. 2 The original charter was lost about 1844; the document preserved atHarrisburg, often spoken of as the original, is a tine copy. 20 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fac-simile of Part of THE Deed given to Penn defended and which were far more ad-vanced than those of most of his contem-poraries. Penn himself, in a letter writtento a friend a few months after obtaining thecharter, said, I have so obtained it . .that an example may be set up to thenations; there may be room there, thoughnot here, for such an holy experiment. Penn thought of naming his provinceNew Wales, but that was objected to,and he then suggested Sylvania. Tothis Penn was added, and the name be-came Pennsylvania, A name the kingwould give it in honor of my father. ^ 1 Penn writes, I much opposed and went to theKing to have it struck out and altered; he said itwas past and would take it upon him; nor couldtwenty guineas move the under secretary to varythe name; for I feared lest it should be looked uponas a vanity in mc, and not as a respect in the King,as it truly was, to my father, whom he often men-tions with praise. LAND GRANT AND CHARTEl^ 21
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