. A history of Pennsylvania. earing,ready in speech, with a manner signifying energy, courage,and confidence of leadership, yetcontrolled and governed by mo-tives of kindly good-will/ Philadelphia in 1682. — Therewas little appearance of a townwhen Penn landed. Though somestreets were laid out there werevery few houses and most of thesewere on the waterside. There weredoubtless some houses near wheretheOld Swedes Church stands;and at Shackamaxon (Kensington)also, but the site of the city as awhole was mostly covered withwoods. Probably the strangestsight which met the eyes of Pennwere the cave
. A history of Pennsylvania. earing,ready in speech, with a manner signifying energy, courage,and confidence of leadership, yetcontrolled and governed by mo-tives of kindly good-will/ Philadelphia in 1682. — Therewas little appearance of a townwhen Penn landed. Though somestreets were laid out there werevery few houses and most of thesewere on the waterside. There weredoubtless some houses near wheretheOld Swedes Church stands;and at Shackamaxon (Kensington)also, but the site of the city as awhole was mostly covered withwoods. Probably the strangestsight which met the eyes of Pennwere the caves in the Delawareriver bank, in which numbers of im-migrants were living while their log-cabin homes were being built. One of these caves was the birthplace 1 M 1 1 William Penn Statue of John Key, the first child bornc, -n,! -1 1 1 1 • 1-1 . o Philadelphia City Hall Tower alter Philadelphia was laid As a result of Penns connection with the Quakers and thewide circulation of the pamphlets describing the new ^ William Penns dress was that usually worn by gentlemen of the time,but without the lace and trimmings which were common; and he wore nosword. What is called the Quaker plain dress was unknown in Pennsday. - William Penn, in recognition of this fact, ga\e the child a lot on Sassafras(Race) St. between 4th and 5th Sts. Key lived to be eighty-two. 34 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA about two thousand immigrants ^ landed in Pennsylvaniaduring 1682. They made desirable citizens; most of themwere comfortably off, and brought with them tools, house-hold goods, building materials, and stores of various had little to fear from the Indians, and food wasabundant. Lands; Laws; Boundaries. — Penn found many things todo, for all sorts of questions had to be settled. Those regard-ing land claims were exceedingly difficult. He visited NewYork, in order, as he says, That I might pay my duty tothe Duke in the visit of his government and Colony. Hehad already called a
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