William+Penn

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=__**7 Facts**__= = = ===**-William Penn was born on October 14, 1644 in London, England. **=== ===**-Sadly he died on July 30, 1718 at age 74 in Berkshire, England. **===

**-William Penn was the first of three children. **
===**-He was a Quaker, which means he did not believe in war. **===

===**-In late May, early June 1680 William Penn sent a petition asking for land in the "New World." Just above Maryland right below New York. **===

===**-If King Charles II gave William Penn land In the " New World" he could get rid of all the Quakers in jail or prison. **=== ===**- ****Even though William Penn was a great student he got expelled several times because of his religious protests. **===

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=__Book Summary__=

===William Penn was a very smart and good child even student. When he was a child he got smallpox but very luckily he had survived only losing his hair. He soon grew it again. At age 20 William Penn entered Law School at Lincoln's Inn on the other side of town. William Penn got arrested for many things. In June 1665 the deadly Plague killed 100 people in 1 single week. Luckily William Penn survived the Plague and went to Ireland at age 21. Quakers do not believe in violence and in carring around weapons. William Penn sended a responce letter to the critics of Quakers but because he wrote so fast and sloppy they misunderstood William's words and he got locked up in the Tower of London. William Penn married Guli Springett in 1672. William inherited his father's estates. Guli herself was an heiress. In 1675 Guli gave birth to a "big and active" boy they named Springett for Guli's family. Three years later a girl named Tish joined the family. When Penn arrived in "New World" he named his city Philadelphia and named the state Pennsylvania which means " Penn's Woods." William Penn was governor. Still today Pennsylvanians remember the great founder, William Penn!===

=__**Citation**__= Swain, Gwenyth. //Freedom seeker : a story about William Penn//. 1st ed. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2003. 64 p. Print.





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=**__William Penn's Life Timeline__**=
 * 1642 || Outbreak of English Civil War. ||
 * 1644 || Penn was born in London on October 14. ||
 * 1648 || Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War in Europe. ||
 * 1649 || Execution of King Charles I in England. ||
 * 1653 || Oliver Cromwell inaugurates Protectorate. ||
 * 1658 || Cromwell dies. ||
 * 1660 || Restoration of Stuart monarchy in England (accession of Charles II). Penn enters Christ Church College, Oxford. ||
 * 1662 || Penn expelled from Oxford for religious nonconformity. ||
 * 1663 || Penn studies at the Protestant Academy in Saumur, France. ||
 * 1665 || Penn enters Lincoln’s Inn, London, to study law. ||
 * 1667 || Penn converts to Quakerism in Ireland; is arrested for the first time. ||
 * 1670 || September: Penn-Mead trial, commemorated in Penn’s //People’s Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted.// Death of Penn’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. ||
 * 1672 || Penn marries Gulielma Springett. Charles II issues Declaration of Indulgence tolerating religious nonconformists. Forced to withdraw Declaration after parliamentary objections. ||
 * 1673 || Parliament enacts Test Act, requiring English officeholders to swear oaths of allegiance and to abjure papal supremacy and Catholic doctrine. ||
 * 1675 || Penn’s first involvement in colonization. Arbitrates dispute between Quakers in West Jersey. Becomes trustee of West New Jersey. ||
 * 1677 || Travels to Holland and Germany defending Quakers and promoting liberty of conscience. ||
 * 1679–81 || Popish Plot in England, with turmoil over rumors to bring Catholicism to England under guise of toleration. ||
 * 1681 || March: Penn receives charter for Pennsylvania. ||
 * 1682 || Death of Penn’s mother, Lady Margaret Penn. August: Penn arrives in Pennsylvania. ||
 * 1684 || Returns to England to pursue boundary disputes with Lord Baltimore. ||
 * 1685 || Charles II dies. James II, a Catholic, crowned King of England. Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, basis for toleration of French Protestants. ||
 * 1687 || James II issues Declaration of Indulgence, tolerating religious nonconformists. Penn supports James’s cause. ||
 * 1688 || Glorious Revolution: William of Orange invades England. James ejected from the throne. William and Mary crowned King and Queen of England. ||
 * 1689 || Toleration Act passed. Penn arrested, accused of treason. ||
 * 1691–93 || Penn in hiding. ||
 * 1694 || Gulielma Springett Penn-William Penn's first wife-dies. ||
 * 1696 || Penn marries Hannah Callowhill.(his second wife) ||
 * 1699 || Penn arrives in the "New World" ||
 * 1701 || William returns to England. ||
 * 1702 || William III dies. Queen Anne crowned. ||
 * 1708 || Legal troubles, Penn in debtor’s prison for a time. ||
 * 1712 || Penn suffers strokes, is hurt for rest of life. ||
 * 1714 || Death of Queen Anne. George I of Hanover crowned King of England. ||
 * 1715 || Death of Louis XIV. ||
 * 1718 || 30 July, Penn dies. ||

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