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	William Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penn pleaded for his right to see a copy of the charges laid against him and the laws he had supposedly broken, but the judge, the Lord Mayor of London, refused—even though this right was guaranteed by the law.
		Although Penn's authority over the colony was officially subject only to that of the king, through his Frame of Government he implemented a democratic system with full freedom of religion, fair trials, elected representatives of the people in power, and a separation of powers—again ideas that would later form the basis of the American constitution.
		William Penn, Visionary Proprietor by Tuomi J. Forrest, at the University of Virginia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Penn (1873 words)

	Penn, Sir William, British admiral. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It probably had nothing to do with his secret negotiations with the exiled Charles II, who, when restored to the throne, knighted Penn (1660) and made him a commissioner of the navy.
		In the second Dutch War Penn was second in command to the duke of York (later James II) in the action of the fleet in 1665 and retired to shore duty when the duke was relieved of command.
		Penn’s son was William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Penn-Sir.html (222 words)

	PHMC: Pennsylvania History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Penn was born in London on October 24, 1644, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn. Despite high social position and an excellent education, he shocked his upper-class associates by his conversion to the beliefs of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, then a persecuted sect.
		Although William Penn was granted all the land in Pennsylvania by the King, he and his heirs chose not to grant or settle any part of it without first buying the claims of Indians who lived there.
		Because of the liberality of Penn's principles and the freedom of expression that prevailed, the province was noted for the variety and strength of its intellectual and educational institutions and interests.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/pahist/quaker.asp?secid=31 (2231 words)

	WILLIAM PENN, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Penn became a member of a new, radical religious group in 1667 when he was 23 years old.
		When Sir William Penn died before the loan was repaid, the King owed the debt to the younger Penn. Instead of the money, Penn preferred a tract of land in North America.
		Penn made agreements with several tribes (most notably the Delaware, or Leni Lenape) whom he always treated with respect, and no treaty was broken during his lifetime.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/penn/html (400 words)

	Delaware Chapter VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Penn, who was a great favorite with the Duke of York, and the founder of Pennsylvania and Delaware, was born in London, in St. Catharine’s Parish, hard by the Tower, October 14, 1644.
		Sir John Werden, agent of the Duke of York, opposed it because the territory sought was an appendage to the government of New York, and as such belonged to the duke.
		Penn next speaks of his plan for allotments or dividends, but as his scheme was not then, as he confesses, fully developed, and as he later furnished all the details of this scheme as he finally matured it, we will pass that by for the present.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/DE/Delaware/delaware8.htm (7827 words)

	William Penn (admiral) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir William Penn (1621 – September 16, 1670) was an English admiral, and the father of William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania.
		In 1660 Penn was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy Board where he worked with Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board.
		A native of the West Country Sir William Penn is buried in the church of St.
	en.askmore.net /William_Penn_(admiral).htm (293 words)

	Introduction
		William Penn is known, of course, as the founder of Pennsylvania.
		Penn was both idealistic and practical, and generally operated by trying for the best he could conceive while pragmatically retreating from these impossible heights.
		Penn was born October 14, 1644 to Anglican parents, Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/PENN/pnintro.html (1406 words)

	Pennsbury Penn in Pennsylvania
		Penn never succeeded in settling this dispute during his lifetime, and in fact it was never settled by anyone until the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line in 1763.
		Penn himself, describing his impressions of his first visit to the colony, hailed the new city with this eloquent passage: "And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou were born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail has there been, to bring thee forth....
		Perhaps the most important achievement of William Penn's second stay in the colony was the adoption of a new frame of government, the Charter of Privileges, in October, 1701.
	www.pennsburymanor.org /PennInPa.html (2666 words)

	William Penn, English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Penn, one of their leaders, persuaded King Charles II to let them set up a colony in America.
		Penn was born on Oct. 14, 1644, in London, the son of a naval officer later knighted as Admiral Sir William Penn. The boy went to school in Essex.
		Penn drew up a frame of government for his colony which greatly influenced later charters.
	franklaughter.tripod.com /cgi-bin/histprof/misc/penn.html (1022 words)

	William Penn
		Penn's patron and the friend of his father, the Duke of York, succeeded to the throne as James II, on 6 February, 1685, and soon after his accession set at liberty about 1,200 Quakers that had been imprisoned for their religious opinions.
		Penn's success with the king being reported, it naturally made enemies for him, and it was circulated that he had matriculated at a Jesuit seminary, had taken holy orders in Rome, and officiated regularly at mass in the private chapel at Whitehall.
		Penn was sent by James to visit William of Orange, whom he endeavored to convert to his views of universal toleration, and, after visiting in Holland, he traveled through Rhineland, where he circulated reports of the success of his colony.
	www.arthurstclair.com /williampenn (5692 words)

	Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690 by Murray N. Rothbard
		Penn was greatly aided in securing the charter by his friendship with the king and other high officials of the court.
		William Penn himself arrived in America in the fall of 1682 to institute the new colony.
		Penn was anxious to promote settlement as rapidly as possible, both for religious (a haven to Quakers) and for economic (income for himself) reasons, Penn advertised the virtues of the new colony far and wide throughout Europe.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard81.html (4228 words)

	William Penn
		In payment for a debt King Charles II owed his father, Admiral Sir William Penn, Penn persuaded the king to grant him a vast province on the west bank of the Delaware River.
		Penn believed in a "divine right of government" and sought to form the government of Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment" in governing.
		Penn realized that much of the land to which he had been given a royal charter was held by the Delaware (Leni Lenape) Indians.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/quakerism/49514/2 (388 words)

	William Penn, by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
		William Penn (1644-1718) is surely one of the best known of Friends from the early years of Quakers.
		Considering that Penn was a religious nonconformist and a leading advocate of democratic government, it's not surprising that he played a significant role in working for religious liberty.
		Penn and William Meade were arrested and imprisoned on a charge of inciting a riot.
	www.quakerinfo.com /quakpenn.shtml (1380 words)

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		William Penn was heir to aristocratic privilege in Restoration England.
		A considerable shortcoming of Penn's colonizing effort was that he was not in America most of the time, and needed to work via intermediaries and by letter.
		Penn was acquainted with the free churches of the continent since a visit to the Netherlands in 1677.
	www.nd.edu /~theo/research/jhy_2/writings/history/pennsexp.htm (3061 words)

	The State Museum of Pennsylvania Presents An Image of Peace: The William Penn Treaty
		William Penn, wealthy aristocrat turned persecuted Quaker, wrote in March 1681, "this day my country was confirmed to me … by the name Pennsylvania …" This grant of New World land launched yet another wave of migration across the Atlantic.
		William Penn petitioned Charles II, King of England, for a grant of land in America to repay a debt owed to the Penn family.
		Penn's 1681 charter set the boundaries of the colony, established Penn as Proprietor with the right to dispose of the land and write laws for its inhabitants.
	www.statemuseumpa.org /Potamkin/brother (465 words)

	William Penn
		Penn was sent down from Oxford University for refusing to conform to the restored Anglican Church.
		Penn saw the venture as a "holy experiment" and hoped he would be able to establish a colony where people of all creeds and nationalities could live together in peace.
		Penn returned to London in 1684 and led the campaign for religious toleration in England.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REpenn.htm (326 words)

	PHMC Doc Heritage: Pennsylvania Charter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Proprietor William Penn was a "landed gentleman" having inherited estates in England and Ireland from his father, Admiral Sir William Penn. Like others of his class, he was caught in an inflationary squeeze.
		Penn (and others) saw expansion of their land holdings as a solution to this problem.
		Penn was to maintain an agent in or near London to respond to any charges of their violation.
	www.docheritage.state.pa.us /documents/charter.asp (1848 words)

	Penn Family Genealogy
		Giles Penn, made the decision to besiege the pirates in port.
		The growth and well-being of his colony was based on a tradition of religious toleration and freedom under law, fundamental principles of American civil life.
		King Charles II, out of "regard to the memorie and meritts of his late father," gave the younger Penn a huge tract of land in North America and named it, in honor of the Admiral, "Pennsylvania," or Penn's Woods.
	www.aritek.com /hartgen/htm/penn.htm (2086 words)

	Penn Summary / Study Guide
		Admiral Penn loves his first-born son and hopes for him to become a diplomat or other high government official.
		Young Penn is educated for such high office, but his turn to Quakerism ruins his father's plans.
		Ironically, it is the religiously tolerant admiral who introduces his son to the Quakers by allowing the Quaker Thomas Loe to preach to the household.
	www.enotes.com /penn-qn/48915 (128 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ William Penn, Pass Through Life But Once ~ March 4 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		British religious leader William Penn (1644-1718) was a champion for peace, love, and liberty.
		Born in London, he was the wealthy son of naval hero Admiral Sir William Penn. Young William studied at Oxford, became an advocate for Quaker practices, and was imprisoned for his "radical" writings.
		Penn's ideals of brotherhood, freedom of worship, and representative government inspired Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /030401.htm (287 words)

	Penn Family Part 1
		Admiral Penn was born and buried in Bristol and was in joint-charge of the annexation of Jamaica by the British in 1655.
		The Admiral and the Penn family were not entitled to use the Coat of Arms which belonged to the Penns of Penn in Buckinghamshire.
		It is with the wealthier strata of the sect that Penn identified.
	www.cems.uwe.ac.uk /~rstephen/livingeaston/local_history/Penn/Penn_family_part_1.html (11005 words)

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		Penn and Meade eventually disagreed, since Penn was a friend of the Stuart kings and Meade sought their overthrow.) They were charged with fomenting a riot, and tried by jury.
		Penn demanded to see a copy of the law he was accused of breaking, and the judges shouted him down.
		In 1737, nearly twenty years after the death of William Penn, his son Thomas Penn, not a Quaker, made a treaty with the Indians for the purchase of land extending for a distance of one-and-a-half days' walk.
	elvis.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/FOX/penn.txt (1345 words)

	William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
		William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania: Bibliography - Bibliography See M. and R. Dunn, ed., The Papers of William Penn (5 vol., 1981–87);...
		William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania: Early Life - Early Life He was expelled (1662) from Oxford for his religious nonconformity and was then sent by...
		William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania: In the American Colonies - In the American Colonies Penn became involved in the affairs of the American colonies when in 1675...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0838169.html (268 words)

	JOY RIDDERHOF
		William Penn was born in London in 1644.
		In 1668 Penn was arrested for writing a tract attacking the doctrines of the Church of England.
		In spite of his father’s disappointment in him, the admiral was finally able to arrange for William’s release from prison.
	trailblazerbooks.com /books/Nighthawk/Hawkbio.html (592 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: William Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Penn was born in London in 1644, the son of Margaret Jasper Vanderschuren (1610?-1682) and Admiral Sir William Penn (1621-1670) a wealthy sea captain and landowner, who was politically connected to Parliament during the English Civil Wars, and to the Stuart Monarchy thereafter.
		Soon Penn was off to manage his father's estates in Ireland, where he gained political and financial experience, and even helped to put down a rebellion there.
		Penn became a lifelong advocate for the principle of “liberty of conscience” in general and the Society of Friends, or Quakers, in particular.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4986 (697 words)

	FromYard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Their treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants, whom they are accused of having practically exterminated, is a grave charge, and if true, cannot be condoned on the plea that such conduct was characteristic of the age, and that as bad or worse was perpetrated by other nations even in later years."
		In May 1655, British forces in the form of a joint expedition by Admiral Sir William Penn (father of the founder of Pennsylvania), and General Robert Venables seized the island.
		In 1657 and 1658 the Spanish, sailing from Cuba, failed at the battles of Ocho Rios and Rio Nuevo in their attempts to retake the island, and in 1657 Admiral Robert Blake defeated the Spanish West Indian Fleet.
	www.fromyard.com /history.htm (790 words)

	Commonwealth Foundation : Research Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Most of the immigrants were Quakers; in addition to English Quakers came Welsh, Irish, and German Quakers, Penn laid out the capital, destined to become the great city of Philadelphia, and changed the name of the old Swedish settlement of Upland to Chester.
		But despite the frantic urgings of William Penn for cooperation with Dyer, Pennsylvanians persisted in their de facto anarchism by blithely and regularly evading the royal navigation laws.
		He believed that some means should be found to collect taxes for the operation of the government."3 His general view, as he wrote to Penn, was the familiar statist cry that the colonists were suffering from excessive liberty: they had eaten more of the "honey of your concessions… than their stomachs can bear."
	www.commonwealthfoundation.org /research/index.cfm?section=commentaries&articleID=786&articleType=29 (4116 words)

	Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir William Penn (1621-70). - - Port Cities
		With his left hand, he gestures towards the stern of a ship at sea, and he stands in front of a stone wall on the right.
		In the First Dutch War, Penn commanded squadrons at the Battles of Kentish Knock, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen, and he received the gold medal and chain from Parliament.
		He was dispatched to fetch the king from Holland with Sandwich in the 'Naseby', 86 guns, and was made a Commissioner of the Admiralty.
	www.portcities.org.uk /server/show/conMediaFile.492/Flagmen-of-Lowestoft-Admiral-Sir-William-Penn-(162170).html (225 words)

	A William Penn I Pennsbury Chronology
		Portrait of William Penn in armor, age 22.
		Penn lived in Ireland 1666-67 during the time he served under Lord Arran, in the military, before embracing the beliefs of the Society of Friends.
		King Charles II grants William Penn a charter for a colony to be known as Penn’s Woods or Pennsylvania, for Penn’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. Penn first visits colony.
	www.pennsburymanor.org /Chronology.html (154 words)

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