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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
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 the proprietary. He was to govern in harmony with law, and the people were requested to continue the established system of revenue till Penn himself could reach America. During the summer, the conditions for the sale of lands were July 11. reciprocally ratified by Penn and a company of adventurers. The enterprise of planting a province had been vast for a man of large fortunes; Penn's whole estate had yielded, when unencumbered, a re