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	William Penn - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		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.
		Penn died in 1718, and was buried next to his wife in the cemetery of the Quaker meetinghouse in Jordans.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/William_Penn (1183 words)

	William Penn - MSN Encarta
		William Penn (1644-1718), English Quaker and the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania.
		After the accession of William III, king of England and Ireland, Penn was twice accused of treason and of corresponding with the exiled James II, but he was aquitted.
		Penn’s accomplishments during this visit included the suppression of piracy, the granting of a charter to Philadelphia, and the issuance of the Charter of Privileges, a guarantee of religious freedom.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576387 (405 words)

	William Penn: Biography of William Penn
		WILLIAM PENN., a celebrated English Quaker and Philanthropist, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, the son of Sir William Penn, an eminent English admiral, was born at London, October 14th, 1644.
		In 1666 the admiral sent him to Ireland to look after his estates in the county of Cork, which Penn did to his father's complete satisfaction; for in matters of business he was as practical an Englishman as in religion he was spiritually minded.
		The mother, however, now interposed, and pleaded for her boy so far that he was allowed to return home, and the admiral even exerted his influence with the government to induce it to wink at his son's attendance at the illegal conventicles of the Quakers, which he would not give up.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/P/WilliamPenn.html (980 words)

	William Penn (admiral) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Penn (April 23, 1621 – September 16, 1670) was an English admiral, and the father of William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania.
		Penn was born in St. Thomas Parish, Bristol.
		The key source for the adult life of Penn is the Diary of his nextdoor neighbour Samuel Pepys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Penn_(admiral) (367 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.williampenn.org (5689 words)

	William Penn Biography
		William Penn was born in London, England, on October 14, 1644.
		Admiral Penn served in the parliamentary navy during the Puritan Revolution (1647), when the royal forces of King Charles I (1600–1649) fought with those in England's parliament.
		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.
	www.notablebiographies.com /Pe-Pu/Penn-William.html (1224 words)

	Brief History of William Penn
		Penn was a frequent companion of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, travelling in Europe and England with him in their ministry.
		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.
		Penn died in 1718 at his home in Ruscombe, near Twyford in Berkshire, and was buried next to his first wife in the cemetery of the Jordans Quaker meeting house at Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire in England.
	www.ushistory.org /Penn/history/index.htm (1565 words)

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		William Penn was born on October 14, 1644, in London.
		Admiral Penn had a good personal relationship with Stuart kings and for a while served their most famous adversary, the Puritan Oliver Cromwell.
		Admiral Penn, assigned to rebuilding the British Navy for war with the Dutch, asked that his son serve as personal assistant.
	www.quaker.org /wmpenn.html (3150 words)

	William Penn & Beermaking In Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By this means Penn became sole proprietor of a colony which he foresaw as a place of refuge for his fellow Quakers -- the nonconformist sect whose faith earned them nothing but contempt and persecution in England (as well as in most of the established American colonies).
		Penn's concept of government was extraordinarily liberal, in many respects tantamount to a genuinely democratic scheme; moreover, he guaranteed complete freedom of worship, and delegated much more administrative authority than any other of the colonial governors saw fit to allow.
		Penn himself was enough of a beer-drinker to have a brewhouse constructed at the estate he built in Pennsbury, Bucks County, twenty miles upriver from Philadelphia.
	www.beerhistory.com /library/holdings/williampenn.shtml (1123 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)

	John Penne Family Tree - pafg01 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William (e) Penn [Parents] was born 14 Oct 1644 in Church of All Hallows, Barking, England.
		William (d) Penn Admiral, Sir [Parents] was born 23 Apr 1621 in St Thomas, Bristol, England.
		William (a) Penn married Mrs William Penn on 1547.
	members.tripod.com /paul_tannertremaine/jpenn/pafg01.htm (414 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 biography
		For this conduct Penn was expelled from the university.
		Penn's colony in its infancy escaped the horrors of Indian warfare which befell some of the other American settlements, and under the liberal though weak and confused government of its founder made immense progress during the next few years.
		Penn departed for England towards the end of 1701, where by the treacherous manipulations of his steward, Ford, he was financially ruined.
	www.dromo.info /pennbio.htm (1182 words)

	William Penn
		William Penn was born in England in 1644 and attended Oxford University.
		Penn was kicked out of Oxford for his beliefs an was sent to jail 6 times.
		William Penn's father was a rich man and was an admiral in the king's navy.
	pt3.sbu.edu /vfts/pa/new_page_2.htm (238 words)

	William Penn
		William Penn was born in London in 1644, the son of Sir William Penn who was an admiral in the British Navy.
		William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania became the model for the constitution of the United States of America.
		William Penn believed that he could live with the Indians as a good neighbour so he set about dealing fairly with them by paying them for their land instead of just taking it.
	www.williampenn.w-sussex.sch.uk /html/william_penn.htm (422 words)

	Pennsylvania
		Penn was a Quaker, which meant he had to rebel against the Church of England.
		William Penn was granted 50,000 square miles of rich soiled, dense forested, North American land.
		Penn built a home in Philadelphia planning to stay, but after two years in the colony he was called to England on business.
	www.geocities.com /pauljw.geo/colonyp.html (447 words)

	william penn biography - infos
		William Penn was a tireless writer who expounded his theories on religious tolerance and the Quaker ideals in books...
		William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was the son of Sir William Penn, a distinguished English admiral...
		William Penn was expelled from Oxford because he refused to...
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/ang10/13/william-penn-biography.html (179 words)

	mwtb.org William Penn's Faith
		William Penn, whose name is indelibly written in the history of America, was a son of Sir William Penn, an Admiral in the British Navy, whose estate was near Cork, Ireland.
		While William was yet a child, an itinerant Quaker preacher named Thomas Loe visited Cork and Sir William Penn, out of curiosity, invited him to visit his estate.
		William was too young to fully understand what was said, but he was greatly affected by the loud weeping of a servant of the household, and turning to his father he saw the Admiral's bronzed face bathed in tears.
	www.mwtb.org /pages/display.php?id=416770 (640 words)

	WILLIAM PENN ( (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born and raised in London, England, William Penn was an English Quaker who was noted for his advocation of religious toleration.
		The son of Sir Admiral William Penn, the younger attended Oxford University in 1660, where he came under the influence of nonconformity and separation from classical education.
		Penn's colony succeeded, but in his role as administrator, he lost the faith of fellow colonists.
	library.advanced.org /22254/wpenn1.htm (174 words)

	Part IV, Chapter 40.
		This William Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, an admiral in the British Navy, and a friend of King Charles I. He was a Royalist and a Churchman, and when his handsome young son turned Quaker he was greatly grieved.
		Penn meant to call his new country New Wales, but a Welshman who hated the Quakers objected to the name of his land being given to a Quaker colony, so Penn changed it to Sylvania, meaning Woodland, because of the magnificent forests which were there.
		William Penn, however, was afraid that people would think that this was vanity on his part, and that he had called his province after himself; so he tried to have the name changed.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/country/country-IV-40.html (2420 words)

	William Penn
		William Penn was born in London and attended Oxford where he became acquainted with the Society of Friends (Quakers); his association with this highly unpopular sect led to his expulsion from the university.
		Penn was generally successful in maintaining good relations with neighboring Indian tribes and governed the colony effectively for two years.
		William Penn was a truly notable figure whose career encompassed an ardent advocacy for Quakerism, a prominent presence in the English court, a trusted friendship with his Indian neighbors in Pennsylvania, and a successful role as an early urban planner.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h596.html (614 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.
		Penn and William Meade were arrested and imprisoned on a charge of inciting a riot.
		Penn used the trial to vigorously and effectively expose the illegality of the trumped-up case against him.
	www.quakerinfo.com /quakpenn.shtml (1399 words)

	William Penn
		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)

	Pennsylvania (Grades 5-6)
		After all, Pennsylvania means "Penn's woodland." It was named in honor of Admiral William Penn. His son, also named William Penn, founded the colony as an escape for the members of the Society of Friends (or Quakers) in 1682.
		William Penn was born on October 24, 1644, to a famous English admiral, Sir William Penn. During his young life, there was a lot of fighting in England, and he even became a soldier.
		Penn advertised for settlers of different trades, and yet promised the settlers who were already there that they would be governed by rules they made.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_Geography_69_1.html (324 words)

	Wikinfo \| William Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is a statue of William Penn atop the City Hall building of Philadelphia, built by Alexander Milne Calder.
		There is a common misconception that the smiling Quaker found on boxes of Quaker Oats is William Penn. The Quaker Oats Company has stated that this is not true.
		William Penn, Visionary Proprietor by Tuomi J. Forrest, at the University of Virginia
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=William_Penn (1375 words)

	LawBuzz - Can You Believe It, William Penn, Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Penn was still an Englishman, living in London.
		Now Penn was on trial for his life, charged with sedition against the Crown.
		And so it appeared for William Penn. A Quaker, Penn was upset with a law that made the Church of England the only place where people could worship.
	www.lawbuzz.com /can_you/penn/penn2.htm (241 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 (416 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)

	William Penn: An Irish Quaker
		William Penn was born in London in 1644.
		His father was an English admiral and William was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and become a good "Anglican royalist." However, an incident in young William's boyhood served to set his feet on an entirely different path.
		William, being fluent in both Greek and Latin, was expected to attend Oxford and become its shining star.
	americanhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/william_penn (422 words)

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