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- The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, and it was officially proclaimed on April 2. The King named the new colony in honor of William Penn's father.
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In 1681, as payment for the debt, the king granted what is today Pennsylvania to the admiral's son, also named William Penn. Penn named the territory New Wales. A Welsh member of England?s Privy Council objected, so Penn called it Sylvania (woods). The king changed the name to Pennsylvania, in honor of the admiral.
The king’s charter to Penn set the northern border of Pennsylvania at 42 degrees north latitude (the border of New York), and the eastern limit at the Delaware River (the boundary with New Jersey), while the western limit was undefined. Named for the admiral as well as for the woodland it encompassed (Penn’s woods), the new grant differed ...
First Purchasers of Pennsylvania. By Matthew A. Zimmerman. Upon receiving his grant for Pennsylvania in March 1681, William Penn (1644-1718) immediately set about attracting investors and settlers. To pay expenses and realize a profit from his enterprise, Penn had to sell land. The “First Purchasers” who responded to his promotional tracts ...
The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, and it was officially proclaimed on April 2. The King named the new colony in honor of William Penn's father. It was to include the land between the 39th and 42nd degrees of north latitude and from the Delaware River westward for five degrees of longitude.
Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges. By Linda A. Ries. English Quaker William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681, when King Charles II granted him a charter for over forty-five thousand square miles of land. With this charter, Penn’s constitutional authority in Pennsylvania was second only to the King of England.
Penn was a Quaker and wanted a place where Quakers and others could practice their religion in peace. He chose the name Sylvania for his colony and King Charles added Penn to create the name Pennsylvania. The Penn family governed Pennsylvania until the outbreak of the War for Independence.
WHEREAS King CHARLES the Second, by his Letter Patents, under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the Fourth Day of March, in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty, was graciously pleased to give and grant unto me, and my Heirs and Assigns for ever, this Province of Pennsylvania, with divers great Powers and Jurisdictions for the ...
