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The Swedes colonized this small area of Pennsylvania. They built schools, churches, businesses, and homes in this area.
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King Charles II gives William Penn a charter for land. William Penn founds the colony Pennsylvania as a place of religious freedom, and establishes the colony with Quaker ideals.
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Pennsylvania becomes its own colony, and seperates from New Amsterdam.
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Just one week after William Penn founds Pennsylvania, he appoints his first cousin, William Markham, as deputy governor of the new colony.
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In just the first year of Pennsylvania's existence, 3,000 people had moved to Pennsylvania. They had moved there to seek religious freedom or seize economic opportunities.
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William Penn arrived in America on October 30, 1682 to supervise the preparation of the "Great Law."
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The General Assembly meets to enact the Pennsylvania legislation known as the "Great Law."
