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2. William Penn - Wikipedia

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   William Penn (24 October [ O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [ O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious freedom, was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with ...

3. Caleb Pusey House - Wikipedia

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   The Caleb Pusey House, built in 1683 near Chester Creek in Upland, Pennsylvania in the United States, is the oldest English-built house in Pennsylvania. It is the only remaining house that William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, is known to have visited. Caleb Pusey was a friend and business partner of Penn's.

4. Letitia Street House - Wikipedia

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   William Penn. King Charles II granted William Penn a royal charter for a 26-million-acre (110,000 km 2) tract of land – west of New Jersey and north of Maryland – on which to develop an English colony. Penn and a group of Quaker families arrived at the Philadelphia settlement in October 1682. He and his wife, Gulielmas Springetts (1644 ...

5. Slate Roof House - Wikipedia

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   Slate Roof House. Coordinates: 39.94727°N 75.14412°W. William Penn 's house, also known as the Slate Roof House, in a conjectural drawing from Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography in 1888. An 1850 sketch showing an addition between the two wings being used as a storefront. The artist noted the building's dilapidated state and ...

6. Pennsbury Manor - Wikipedia

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   Designated PHMC. November 11, 1949 and October 08, 1951 [2] Pennsbury Manor is the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1699 to 1701. He left it and returned to England in 1701, where he died penniless in 1718. Following his departure and financial woes, the estate fell into ...

7. Walking Purchase - Wikipedia

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   Walking Purchase. Under the Walking Treaty of 1737 during the colonial era, the sons of Province of Pennsylvania founder William Penn acquired the shaded area of present-day Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and the West Jersey region in colonial New Jersey. The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement ...