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the son of Sir William Penn[1], and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.
 Timeline (10)
03/04/1681-King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 
03/10/1681-English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 
06/18/1682-William Penn founds Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08/24/1682-Duke James II gives Delaware to William Penn
08/30/1682-William Penn leaves England to sail to New World 
10/26/1682-William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York 
10/29/1682-William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania 
06/23/1683-William Penn signs a treaty with the chiefs of the Lenni Lenape tribe to guarantee peace between the two groups -- only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
05/07/1700-William Penn begins monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation 
10/28/1701-William Penn replaces the Frame of Government for Pennsylvania (1682) with the Charter of Privileges
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Deborah Norris Logan
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 Quotes (19) • View in Quotations
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
 Genealogy
  • William Penn [1]
    1621 - 1670, Sept 16
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    • William Penn [2]
      1644 - 1718
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