Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . above all others. He went on his preaching tours throughEngland, Holland and Germany, and in all places he was aroused by thesufferings of the peace-loving Quakers. They were fined, robbed, imprisoned and ill-treated in many otherways, all on account of their beliefs. While Penn was studying how toprocure relief for them, George Fox, the great leader of the Quakers,begged him to do something for those in Lord Baltimores colony inAmenca. This led him to think of the New World as
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . above all others. He went on his preaching tours throughEngland, Holland and Germany, and in all places he was aroused by thesufferings of the peace-loving Quakers. They were fined, robbed, imprisoned and ill-treated in many otherways, all on account of their beliefs. While Penn was studying how toprocure relief for them, George Fox, the great leader of the Quakers,begged him to do something for those in Lord Baltimores colony inAmenca. This led him to think of the New World as a place of refugefor all of them. The King had become indebted to Penns father—who was now dead_ for a large sum of money. Penn went to him and asked him to pay the WILIylAM PENN. 119 iebt by granting him a tract of land in America. After awhile the kingagreed to do so, and made over to Penn about forty-thousand acres of ter-ritory north of Virginia, which was already settled by a number of Quakerrefugees. The only claim reserved by the King was that he shouldreceive a payment of two beaver skins every TREK UNDER WHICH PENN SIGNED HIS TREATY WITH THE INDIANS. Now, at last, Penn had a refuge for the followers of the Quaker reli-gion, and a large number of them were soon persuaded to leave theirunhappy homes in Europe and form a colony in the New World, Hewished to name the country New Wales, but the King insisted upon call-ing it Pennsylvania—not in honor of William, as many people think, butof his father, who was a friend of the King. In February of the nextyear Penn with eleven other men bought East New Jersey, which wasthen a flourishing colony, and in September he sailed for his new posses-sions, where he was cordially welcomed by the Friends already there. Hehad made out a form of government and laws for the colony before leavingEngland, and his first work was to make peace with the Indians. 120 WILLIAM PENN. He and the other leaders in the colony met a large com
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