All Annotations of William Penn[Preview]

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• When William Penn left England on his first voyage to Pennsylvania,his
  head was full of visions and hopes for this new Land of Promise
  "six hundred miles nearer the sun." He wanted to see if he and his
  fellow Quakers could establish here a new society based on wider
  freedoms than the Old World knew; and he wanted also to see whether
  it was true, as he thought, that men and women were better and happier
  for this freedom.
• He wanted to see if he and his fellow Quakers could establish here a new society
  based on wider freedoms than the Old World knew
• Holy Experiment
• The growth and well-being of his colony was based on a tradition of religious
  toleration and freedom under law, fundamental principles of American civil life.
• He joined the Society of Friends (the Quakers), who were pacifists, and threw
  his energies with theirs into political battles for freedom of religion, freedom
  of assembly, and the right of trial by jury.
• King Charles II, out of "regard to the memorie and meritts of his late father,"
  gave the younger Penn a huge tract of land in North America and named it, in
  honor of the Admiral, "Pennsilvania," or Penn's Woods.
• At the same time, to reassure the Swedish, Finnish, and Dutch settlers who were
  already in the Province, and who provided a sturdy base for its coming
  population, he sent letters bidding them not to be disturbed at the change of
  government.