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will, a sober and industreous People. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnisht me with a better resolution, and has given me his grace to keep it. In short, whatever sober and free men can reasonably desire for the security and improvement of their own happiness, I shall heartily comply with—I beseech God to direct you in the way of righteousness, and therein prosper you and your children after you. I am Your true Friend, Wm. Penn. London, 8th of the Month called April, 1681. Haz. Reg. i. 377. Such were the pledges of the Quaker sovereign on assuming the government; it is the duty of history to state, that, during his long reign, these pledges were redeemed. He never refused the free men of Pennsylvania a reasonable desire. With this letter to the inhabitants, young Markham May. immediately See the careful statement in the Memoir on Penn's Treaty with the Indians, by P. S. Du Ponceau and J. Francis Fisher, p. 14. sailed as agent of