Author: Jean R. Soderlund
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Book Description
On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and women could worship as they pleased, where men could participate fully in their government. Such a land, Penn believed, would indeed be blessed. Beginning with his petition to the king in May 1680 and ending with his departure to England in August 1684, this book contains the most important documents describing the founding of Pennsylvania. The letters, orders, petitions, charters, laws, pamphlets, maps, constitutional drafts, legislative journals, newspaper articles, memoranda, deeds, and other business records assembled here include Penn's own explanations of his desire to found a Quaker colony, his invitation to settlers, and his design for government.
Author: Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756517885
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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A biography of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Author: Ryan Jacobson
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0736865012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Tells the story of Quaker leader William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, whose ideas about government influenced the U.S. Constitution. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author: Steven Kroll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823414390
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion.
Author: Mason Locke Weems
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151282142X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 731
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This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.
Author: Edwin B. Bronner
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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An explanation of Pennsylvania history between the years 1681 and 1701. The chapters contain material about the religion, the philosophy, the economic life, and the social life of the people in Pennsylvania.
Author: Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190234245
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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"It may surprise many that William Penn, who founded one of the thirteen original American colonies, spent just four years on American soil. Even more surprising, though, is Penn's remarkable impact on the fundamental principles of religious freedom on both sides of the Atlantic, especially given his tumultuous life: from his youthful radicalism as leader of the Quaker movement to his role as governor and proprietor of a major American colony; from royal courtier to alleged traitor to the Crown. In the first major biography of this important transatlantic figure in more than forty years, Andrew R. Murphy takes readers through the defiant and complex life of a religious dissenter, political theorist, and social activist"--
Author: Jane Budge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Author: Ryan Jacobson
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 0736896651
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Book Description
Tells the story of Quaker leader William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, whose ideas about government influenced the U.S. Constitution. Written in graphic-novel format.
