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WILLIAM PENN IS BORN
the son of Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper, a captain previously widowed and the daughter of a Rotterdam merchant. -
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the funding of pa
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penn becomes a quaker
joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1660s -
penn founds PA
In 1681, William Penn was granted a land charter from Charles II. He named the land Pennsylvania which means "Penn"s Woods." Prior to this, the Swedes and Dutch occupied the area. -
penn gets land that is now PA and Delaware
In 1682, James Duke of York , the future James II of England,[1] handed over a large piece of his American holdings to William Penn. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware -
three southernmost counties were established in PA
In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania, were permitted to split off and become the new semi-autonomous colony of lower Delaware. -
Penn dies
