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The king owed William Penn's father, but his father died before the king could pay him back. He therefore gave a land grant in the Americas to William instead. Penn and the Quakers wanted to leave England because they were being persecuted for not paying taxes to the Church of England. Quakers came to America on a ships called the Kent and the Welcome in 1675 and 1682. William Penn then founded the colony of Pennsylvania in the New World as a place for the Quakers to worship. Other than that, really nothing because people weren't even considered Americans then.

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