1630 He came over on the Winthrop fleet.
1682
The Crown of England owed Penn's father a huge debt that could not be repaid in cash. William accepted a Land Grant in America as payment for the debt.
He was English. The king gave him the land grant. He was a Quaker from a wealthy family with large landholdings in England and Ireland.
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William Penn went to prison for being a Quaker. Everyone in England was supposed to be Church of England. His father owed money to the King so William settled on taking land in America instead.
1682
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The Pennsylvania colony, otherwise known as the province of Pennsylvania, was founded in English North America by William Penn in 1681. The name Pennsylvania is roughly translated as "Penn's woods".
William Penn was America's first town planner.
Penn came to America because he made a deal with some ruling authority (I forget who, but I believe it may have been the king). Said authority didn't tolerate Quakers like Penn, but he owed William's father a favor, so he gave Penn a plot of land in America, where he and the other Quakers went, settling in modern-day Pennsylvania.
ANSWER William Penn.
ANSWER William Penn.
He came from London, England.
William Penn was America's first town planner.
Sylvania is latin for woods, and Penn is for Admiral Sir William Penn.
The Crown of England owed Penn's father a huge debt that could not be repaid in cash. William accepted a Land Grant in America as payment for the debt.