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William Penn

William Penn

The founder of Pennsylvania, in his own words and in the record of those around him. His imprisonment in the Tower and in Newgate, his writing on conscience and government, his dealings with the Lenape, and lives of the Quakers whose movement he carried into the colony: George Fox, Margaret Fell, James Logan.

10+ pages · Letters and lives
1682

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