For religious freedom.
QuakerWilliam Penn was a Quaker. The Quakers are known today as the "Religious Society of Friends."
William Penn founded Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.
Yes they did
Quakers settled in Pennsylvania...founder of William PennWilliam Penn was the absolute proprietor of Pennsylvania (he held the royal charter) and had pronounced religious tolerance for all. Other colonies were often religiously linked and intolerant of religious views outside narrow limits. He welcomed Catholics and Quakers among others. Because the Colony was established as a refuge for European Quakers. Pennsylvania was a favorable place to settle: climate, land, port and government. Philadelphia was at the time the best developed city in the continent.Because the Colony was established as a refuge for European Quakers.You see, William Penn was a friend of king Charles the second and the king did not want to kill William Penn for being a quaker. So he basicly gave him a grant to find land so he would escape persicution. Then have a place for religious freedom.
Not slave. Pennsylvania was begun by Quaker William Penn and the Quakers were against slavery. Penn understood discrimination since he had experienced it in England as a Quaker. He got the land grant from the king after his father died and the king gave him the grant to settle a debt he had with the father.
the Quakers settled in the 17th century.
The Quakers, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Scotch-Irish were the first to settle Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
Quakers first major colony was Pennsylvania, Quakers did settle in this place but not too long. Next colonies were West Jersey and North Carolina they settle for some time in North Carolina but a war arises between French and Quakers and the Quakers lost that battle.
in the 17th century
im pretty sure its pennsylvania
The Quakers helped settle Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania I think. I am not 100%positive but I am pretty sure.
It was established as a refuge for European Quakers.
Quakers settled in the US in many parts of the original 13 American colonies. In some areas they were more welcome than others. Noteworthy among those welcoming Quakers were New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and well as the Island of Nantucket in the Massachusetts Bay colony (they were banned from mainland Boston at one time.)
Originally called Penn's Woods, Pennsylvnia was founded by William Penn. It was founded for religious freedom. Quakers, Friends, Presbyterians, and German Baptists were just some denominations who came.