Identifier: americapicturesq01cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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erica as a phicoof settlement for tlie ))ersecuted Quakers, and he en-gaged witli zeal in the Avork of colonization, and in1081 obtained from the king, for himself and heirs,in ))ayment of a debt of £10,000 due his father, a))ateiit for the territory now fornung Pennsylvania,on tin; fealty of the annual j)aymeiit of two l)eav(,rskins. He wantee^ toifalrmount pari?
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WILLIAM PEXN. 153 full of water, because lie was master of the seas andrivers; and then they f^ave him the keys, to show hewas in command and had all the power. When William Penn Avas granted his province, heAvrote that after many waitings, watchings, solicit-ings and disputes in council, this day my country wasconfirmed to me under the great seal of England.He had great hopes for its future, for he subsequentlywrote : God will bless and make it the seed of anation; I shall have a tender care of the govern-ment that it will be well laid at first. Some of the►Swedes from Christina had come up the river in1643 and settled at the mouth of Chester Creek, at aplace called Upland. The site was an eligible one,and the first parties of Quakers, coming out in threeships, settled there, living in caves which they dugin the river bank, these caves remaining for manyyears after they had built houses. Penn drew up aliberal scheme of government and laws for his colony,in which he is said to have

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