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The colonists there promised loyalty to Penn as their new owner. He studied with a French Protestant theologian, Moise Amyraut.

Penn's Treaty with the Indians, from US Capitol Rotunda.

Peace Negotiations

Penn also made a treaty with the Indians at Shackamaxon (near Kensington in Philadelphia) under an elm tree.

NY: Macmillan, 1974.

Peare, Catherine O. William Penn. Penn even learned several different Indian dialects in order to communicate in negotiations without interpreters. Murray N. Rothbard, excerpt from Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1 (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999).

Penn's works online

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That an example may be set up to the Nations. Penn traveled with Fox and wrote about Quakerism. Penn, at age 62, was put in debtors' prison.

william penn biography video of charles

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. Penn returned to England late in 1701 to fight a proposal in Parliament which would have voided all proprietary grants. This document gave the settlers virtual control over the colony through an elected assembly, or group of leaders.

Penn became the owner of a vast area west of New Jersey and north of Maryland. His father pulled him out of Oxford.

At 18, Penn was sent to Paris to improve his manners. Quakers were advanced in treating mental illness, focusing on care rather than punishment.

Penn and his family lived comfortably at Pennsbury Manor and also had a home in Philadelphia.

This land became the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Even though Penn later disagreed with the Anglican Church, he learned many serious behaviors from his Puritan-style education.

The coat of arms of William Penn: Argent, on a fess sable three plates

When Penn was about fifteen, he met Thomas Loe, a Quaker missionary.

He also attracted other groups who were persecuted, like Huguenots, Mennonites, Amish, Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews from many European countries.

Penn worked to create a legal system for an ethical society. Penn is famous for his efforts in trying to establish freedom of opinion on his own estates, and seeing to the welfare of the Native Americans and African Americans.

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  • Dunn, Richard S. and Mary Maples Dunn. Other difficulties included Penn's identification with King James II (1633–1701), which brought him imprisonment from 1692 to 1694.