. A history of the United States . h trouble in regard to therents of land and various other matters, and Penn hadalready made arrangements to sell his province to the crownwhen he was stricken by paralysis and became incapable oftransacting business. His sons inherited his province at hisdeath in 1718. During the war of the Revolution the statepurchased the interest of the proprietors for £130,000, andall quit-rents were abolished. There was much jealousy of Pennsylvania among the colo-nists of the lower counties on the Delaware, or Terri-tories (sect. 41), and, after many efforts to remove t
. A history of the United States . h trouble in regard to therents of land and various other matters, and Penn hadalready made arrangements to sell his province to the crownwhen he was stricken by paralysis and became incapable oftransacting business. His sons inherited his province at hisdeath in 1718. During the war of the Revolution the statepurchased the interest of the proprietors for £130,000, andall quit-rents were abolished. There was much jealousy of Pennsylvania among the colo-nists of the lower counties on the Delaware, or Terri-tories (sect. 41), and, after many efforts to remove this,Penn gave the counties a lieutenant-governor of theirown. During the brief royal rule they were reunited toPennsylvania. Some years later, however, owing to freshdifficulties, Penn provided for separate legislatures, anarrangement which went into effect in 1703. From thattime, though having the same governor, the colonies wereseparate. Delaware State was declared to be the officialname when a constitution was adopted in CHAPTER III. ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND General. — G. Bancroft, History of the United States, ii. 86-313; , History of the United States, ii. Chaps, xviii., ; Bryant andGay, Popular History of the United States, vols, i., ii., iii. ; T. ^Y. Higginson,Larger History of the United States, pp. 169-215 ; J. A. Doyle, History ofthe United States, Chaps, , xvi.; also his larger work,The EnglishColonies in America; H, C. Lodge, Short History of the English Colonies inAmerica; Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, vols, iv., v.;Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, 9 vols. ; JohnFiske, The Beginnings of New England; R. G. Thwaits, The Colonies(Epochs of American History), pp. 211-284; G. P. Fisher (American His-tory series). The Colonial Era. Special. — For Indians, see Special References to Chap. i. For NewEngland League: American History Leaflets ; No. 7, Articles and Ordinancesof t
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