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IN 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen- year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young William was associating with the scions of the aristocracy and was receiving an education which would fit him to obtain preferment at Court. But there was a serious vein in him, and while at a high chureh Oxford College he was surreptitiously attending the meetings and listening to the preaching of the despised and outlawed Quakers. Thcre he first hegan to hear of the plans or a group of Quakers to found colonies on the...
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CONTENTS; I THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA; II PENN SAILS FOR THE DELAWARE; III LU'E IN PHILLADELPHHIA; IV TYPES OF THE POPULATION; 1; 17; 36; V THE TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS·~ 6S; VI THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR '" 86; VII THE DECLINE OF QUAKER GOVERNMENT; ~ 108; VIII THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW JERSEY '" l~; IX PLANTERS AND TRADERS OF SOUTHERN; JERSEY; X SCOTCH COVENANTERS AND OTHERS; ,~ 15S; IN EAST JEHSEY ·· 168; XI TJII~ UNITED JERSEYS ~ 180; XII LITTLE DEL<',AHE ' 197; xUI THE gr-;GLISII CO~QUEST; ,; ~15; BIBLIO(; RAPH Y t ~Sl; INDEX ·· ~35
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1440041598
- ISBN 13 9781440041594
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
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