William and Daniel Vestal. Daniel died on the voyage and was buried at sea.
ANSWER William Penn.
ANSWER William Penn.
1630 He came over on the Winthrop fleet.
Pennsylvania came from "Penn and woods"
He came from London, England.
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.
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William Penn was America's first town planner.
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".
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.
William Penn was America's first town planner.