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	Proclamation 5284 -- Honorary United States Citizenship for William and Hannah Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Penn, as a British citizen, founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in order to carry out an experiment based upon representative government; public education without regard to race, creed, sex, or ability to pay; and the substitution of workhouses for prisons.
		As a man of peace, William Penn was conscientiously opposed to war as a means of settling international disputes and worked toward its elimination by proposing the establishment of a Parliament of Nations, not unlike the present-day United Nations.
		Hannah Callowhill Penn, William Penn's wife, effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years and, like her husband, devoted her life to the pursuit of peace and justice.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1984/112884a.htm (347 words)

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		William Penn was born on October 14, 1644, in London.
		Penn further rebelled by protesting compulsory chapel attendance, for which he was expelled at age 17.
		Penn's fortunes collapsed after a son was born to James II in 1688.
	www.quaker.org /wmpenn.html (3150 words)

	William Penn, Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This was the first of four sessions of the Assembly held during Penn's brief stay in North America, and the laws passed during those sessions embodied the humanitarian and tolerant spirit of Penn and his fellow Quakers.
		Penn knew that he must also go back if he were not to lose a large portion of his land.
		The boundary quarrel dragged on interminably, and although Penn was able to prevent a transfer of the disputed lands to Maryland, he did not succeed in gaining a clear title to them himself.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/penn/page3.asp?secid=31 (782 words)

	William Penn
		Penn was again arrested in March, 1671, for preaching in a meeting-house in London, and committed to the Tower.
		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.famousamericans.net /williampenn (5778 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)

	William Penn Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Penn's influence with the British royal family and his pamphlets on behalf of religious toleration were important factors in the consolidation of the Quaker movement.
		William Penn was born in London on Oct. 14, 1644, the son of Adm. William Penn and Margaret Jasper.
		Penn's initial treaties with the Indians, signed in 1683 and 1684, were based on an acceptance of Indian equality and resulted in an unprecedented era of peace.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-penn (1229 words)

	Wikinfo \| William Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Penn's religious views were extremely distressing to his father, Sir William Penn, who had through naval service earned an estate in Ireland and hoped that Penn's charisma and intelligence would be able to win him favor at the court of Charles II.
		Although Penn's authority over the colony was officially subject only to that of the king, 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
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=William_Penn (1375 words)

	William Penn, English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
		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.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/penn.html (1030 words)

	William Penn - Problems in Pennsylvania
		Penn carried with him particular instructions to put down piracy, which the objections of the Quakers to the use of force had rendered audacious and concerning which Quary had made strong representations to the home government, while Markham and the inhabitants apparently encouraged it.
		Penn and Quary, however came at once to a satisfactory understanding on this matter, and the illegal traffic was vigorously and successfully attacked.
		Penn, however, did not venture upon emancipation; but he insisted on the instruction of Negroes, permission for them to marry, repression of polygamy and adultery, and proposed regulations for their trial and punishment.
	www.2020site.org /penn/problems.html (834 words)

	William Penn Biography
		William Penn was born in London, England, on October 14, 1644.
		Penn's first treaties (peace agreements) with the Indians, signed in 1683 and 1684, were based on an acceptance of Indian equality and resulted in an era of peace.
		Penn's financial responsibility in the founding of Pennsylvania led to his imprisonment for debt, a humiliating blow.
	www.notablebiographies.com /Pe-Pu/Penn-William.html (1224 words)

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		While William Penn's trusted secretary, James Logan, instructed dockworkers and servants to gather up crates of their belongings, Penn escorted Hannah, as she carefully made her way down the gangplank into his bustling "greene country town." She was pregnant and due to give birth to their first child in about a month.
		Penn's first wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, had died on February 24, 1694, leaving her husband to care for their two surviving children, Laetitia and William Penn, Jr.
		Upon their arrival in Pennsylvania, the Penns made their way through a welcoming throng of officials and well wishers to the home of Edward Shippen, a prominent Quaker and close friend of William Penn, where they would stay for a few weeks.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=35 (832 words)

	Quakers and the Political Process - Penn's Holy Experiment
		Penn, more than any other individual founder or colonist, proved to be the chosen vessel through which the stream of demand for respect for individual rights was to flow so richly into our American reservoir of precious ideals.
		William Penn Charter School, the oldest Quaker school in the world, was chartered by Penn in 1689.
		In 1734 the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania defending the liberty of worship granted by William Penn to this colony successfully withstood the demand of the Governor of the Province that this church be outlawed and such liberty be suppressed.
	www.pym.org /exhibit/p078.html (1099 words)

	Penn, William
		Abstract: The son of a famous admiral, William Penn was born in 1644, just before the English Revolution that overthrew King Charles I. After the restoration of the monarchy, Penn converted from the Anglican Church to become a Quaker, much to his family’s dismay.
		Penn attended Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1660; The Huguenot Academy of Saumur in 1662 to study divinity; and Lincoln’s Inn in 1665 to study law.
		Penn returned to England and, taking advantage of his friendship with King James II (James, the Duke of York), persuaded the King to allow Quakers to practice their religion.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Penn__William.html (748 words)

	An Abstract of the life of William Penn with Quotations and Links
		Penn writes a The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey that includes freedom of conscience, an assembly elected by the people and true trial by jury adapted in 1676.
		Penn lands at New Castle on 27 October (Delaware is also owned by Penn, and was at that time part of Pennsylvania), and begins a stint as Governor.
		William Penn is arrested as a friend of James', but is released on bail and acquitted.
	www.gwyneddfriends.org /wmpenn.htm (3912 words)

	Hannah Callowhill Penn Biography,info
		Hannah Callowhill Penn (February 11, 1671 - 1727) was the second wife of William Penn; she effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years after her husband suffered a series of strokes and then for another eight years after her husband's death.
		When William Penn died at age 73 on July 30, 1718 his will gave full control of the colony and his fortune to Hannah Penn. William Penn's oldest son by his first marriage sought to set aside his father's will to obtain control of the colony.
		Penn personally by her husband when he was laying out the city.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_Hannah_Callowhill_Penn (264 words)

	PENN, WILLIAM (1644-1718) - Online Information article about PENN, WILLIAM (1644-1718)
		A far more important publication was An Address to Protestants of all Persuasions, by William Penn, Protestant, in 1679; a powerful exposition of the doctrine of pure tolerance and a protest against the enforcement of opinions as articles of faith.
		In each case, owing in a great degree to Penn's eager advocacy, Sidney was elected, only to have his elections annulled by court influence.
		governor in 1699, and Penn was a proprietor in 1700.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PENN_WILLIAM_1644_1718_.html (4407 words)

	Callowhill Street
		Callowhill Street, or "Callow Hill," as it used to be called although it was understood it bore the name of William Penn's second wife, Hannah Callowhill has two wide places, one east of Second and the other west of Fourth Street, which occasionally arouse curiosity as to their original use.
		Prior to the Revolution much of the land in that part of the Northern Liberties was owned by the Penns, and Thomas Penn, son of William Penn and Hannah Callowhill Penn, was particularly concerned with selling off the lots around Front and Callowhill.
		Along Callowhill, west of Front, on the north side of the way, there also are some other examples old-time Philadelphia dwellings, smaller in size, but showing almost equal marks of age, although, for the most part, the structures round about are of a later date.
	www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/street_callowhill.htm (1079 words)

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		All of what is now the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by King Charles II of England as repayment of a debt owed to Penn's father.
		Penn Street, named for William Penn, was laid out in an east-to-west orientation perpendicular to the Schuylkill River, and incorporated part of the Tulpehocken Road that connected Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
		Callowhill Street, currently known as Fifth Street, was named after Hannah Callowhill, William Penn's second wife.
	www.89glass.com /states2/pennsylvania/reading.html (1987 words)

	William Penn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
		Penn was educated at Chigwell School, where he had his earliest religious experience.
		His second marriage was to Hannah Margaret Callowhill (1671-1726), daughter of Thomas Callowhill and Anna (Hannah) Hollister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Penn (1949 words)

	William Penn & the City of Brotherly Love
		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.
		It was to include the land between the 39th and 42nd degrees of north latitude and from the Delaware River westward for five degrees of longitude.
		In 1684, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn were made the third and fourth honorary citizens of the United States, by act of Congress.
	www94.homepage.villanova.edu /ebony.taylor/philly/history.html (506 words)

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		The persecution of Quakers became so fierce that Penn decided that it would be better to establish a new, free, Quaker settlement in North America.
		Penn even learned several different Indian dialects in order to communicate in negotiations without interpreters.
		At this meeting Penn expressed concern over wearing a sword (a standard part of dress for people of Penn\'s station), and how this was not in keeping with Quaker beliefs.
	www.northportnyus.com /profile/William_Penn (2034 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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		Penn is a common name used for the University of Pennsylvania
		Penn State is a common name used for the Pennsylvania State University
		Penn Fraser Jillette, a member of the comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Penn (101 words)

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		Three Relics of Pennsylvania's Founding : Historical Society of they are called the only surviving images made from life of Pennsylvaniaâs founder, William Penn, and his second wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn.
		PHMC: Pennsylvania History In 1984, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn were made the third and On May 8, 1985, the Penns were granted honorary citizenship of the
		Hannah callowhill penn There are several streets in the Philadelphia area named Callowhill.
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