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Mar 1, 2016 · His ostensible mission was to open negotiations with Thomas Penn and persuade Pennsylvania’s absentee proprietor to pay at least some local taxes. However, Franklin in London was much more than ...
Thomas Penn did not want the Delawares to comprehend the huge tract of land he wanted to wrest from them, so the map depicting the area was deliberately distorted to reflect a smaller area. It was carefully prepared to give the impression to the chiefs that all they were relinquishing was the land below Tohickon Creek that the Delawares had ...
Jan 8, 2002 · Mr. Benjamin Franklin. 1 . Thomas Penn (1702–1775), son of the founder of Pennsylvania, became one of the Proprietors in 1727, and after 1746, when he inherited his brother John’s interest, owned three-quarters of the proprietorship and exercised dominant control. His brother Richard (1706–1771) owned the remaining one-quarter interest.
Howard M. Jenkins, The Family of William Penn (continued). IX. Thomas Penn, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1897), pp. 324-346
Thomas Penn's bestselling Winter King was a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times and BBC History, and was awarded the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize. He has a PhD in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century history from Clare College, Cambridge, and writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London ...
Thomas Penn Esq One of the first proprietors of Pennsilvania 1751 | Museum number 1860,0728.28 | ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Thomas Penn. Thomas Penn is publishing director at Penguin Books UK. He holds a PhD in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge University, and writes for The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. He is the author of The Brothers York and Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England.
