Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . fortunes. In 1692, the province was 68 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. taken from him, because of his friendship to James II., but restored soon after-ward. In 1699, wlien he made his second visit, he found the j^eojile had in agreat measure grown away from him, and were unwilling that he should exercisehis former supervision. While absent, a dishonest stewartl robbed him of nearlyall his property in England; and,
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . fortunes. In 1692, the province was 68 SETTLEMENT OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. taken from him, because of his friendship to James II., but restored soon after-ward. In 1699, wlien he made his second visit, he found the j^eojile had in agreat measure grown away from him, and were unwilling that he should exercisehis former supervision. While absent, a dishonest stewartl robbed him of nearlyall his property in England; and, failing in health and mind, he died in sons became 2:)roprietors, but the people grew more and more discontentedwith the payment of rents. To end the disputes and quarrels, the State abolishedthe rents during the Revolution, paying the proprietors the sum of $650,000 Iorthe extinouishment of their riohts. PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia was prosper-ous from the first. New YorkCity did not catch up to it untiafter the year 1810. It was earlynoted, as it has been since, forits cleanliness, fine buildings,and the attention it gave toeducation. It had a printing. MORAVIAN EASTER SERVICE, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA. press in 1686, and three years later a public high school. In the year 1749, thepi-esent University of Pennsylvania was founded as a school, becoming a collegein 1755, and a university in 1779. Many of the names of streets, such as Wal-nut, Chestnut, Pine, Mulberry, and others, were given to it when the city waslaid out. The settlement of the province was confined for a long time to the easternsection. No population was more varied. The Scotch and Irish were mainlyin the central portion, the Dutch and Germans in the east and northeast, andthe English in the southeastern part of the colony. There are hundreds ofpeoj^jle to-day in Pennsylvania, whose ancestors for several generations have beenborn there, who are unable to speak or understand a word of English. Maryland
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