William Penn

Examples of William Penn in the following topics:

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

  • William Penn founded the Pennsylvania Colony in 1681 and brought over Quaker dissidents from England, Wales, the Netherlands, and France.
  • In 1681, William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania, also known as Pennsylvania Colony, in British America by royal charter.
  • William Penn had asked for and later received the lands of Delaware from the Duke of York.
  • Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenni Lenape.
  • William Penn, holding paper, standing and facing King Charles II, in the King's breakfast chamber at Whitehall.

• The Holy Experiment

  • William Penn was a well-educated landlord of valuable Irish estates and an evangelist for Quakerism .
  • Penn named his new colony Pennsylvania, meaning "Penn's Woods. " He then tried to attract settlers to Pennsylvania and make a profit off his newly founded colony.
  • William Penn and his fellow Quakers imprinted their religious values on the early Pennsylvanian government.
  • William Penn founded and governed his "Holy Experiment", the province of Pennsylvania.
  • This painting depicts William Penn treating with Native Americans, and the lion sitting down with the lambs.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • King Charles II granted the land for the Pennsylvania Colony to William Penn in 1681 as payment for a debt the crown owed his family.
  • As a proprietary colony, Penn governed Pennsylvania, yet its citizens were still subject to the English crown and laws.
  • In 1704, Dutch land given to Penn by the Duke of York was separated and once again became part of the Delaware Colony.
  • From 1692 to 1694, the revolution in England deprived Penn of the governance of his colony.
  • When William Penn received his land grant of Pennsylvania in 1681, he received the Delaware area from the Duke of York and dubbed it "The Three Lower Counties on the Delaware River."

• A Diverse Population

  • Education was widespread in the northern colonies, which had established colleges led by Harvard College, College of New Jersey (Princeton), and Yale College, while the College of William and Mary trained the elite in Virginia.
  • Meanwhile, William Penn, who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted many British Quakers with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership.
  • William Penn advocated religious tolerance in the New World and strengthened the Quaker movement in North America.

• Settlers and Native Americans

  • The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, by Benjamin West, 1771-1772
  • This painting depicts William Penn signing a peace treaty in 1683 with a Delaware chief in Pennsylvania.

• Quaker Liberty

  • The early Pennsylvania government was heavily influenced by the values of William Penn and the Quakers .

• Troubled Neighbors

  • Charles II granted William Penn the territory now known as Pennsylvania, and Penn in turn granted refuge to Quakers, a group of Protestants who opposed the Church of England, in his new colony.

• Discontent on the Frontier

  • In December, a vigilante group made up of Scots-Irish frontiersmen, the Paxton Boys, attacked the local Conestoga, a Susquehannock tribe who lived on land donated by William Penn to their ancestors in the 1690s.
  • The new governor, John Penn, offered a reward for their capture.

• The Western Lands

  • In December of 1763, following the end of the French and Indian War and the signing of the proclamation, a vigilante group made up of Scots-Irish frontiersmen known as the Paxton Boys attacked the local Conestoga, a Susquehannock tribe who lived on land negotiated by William Penn and their ancestors in the 1690s.
  • The new governor, John Penn, offered a reward for their capture.

• The Southern Renaissance

  • The Southern Renaissance included famed writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Robert Penn Warren.
  • The group included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and others.
  • Among the writers of the Southern Renaissance, William Faulkner is arguably the most influential and famous as the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
  • Beyond Faulkner, playwright Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie), author Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men), and others including Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, and Allen Tate were classified as Southern Renaissance writers.
  • William Faulkner, author of the 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, was a leading voice in the Southern Renaissance movement.