William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary HistoryJean R. Soderlund University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983 - 432 pages On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and women could worship as they pleased, where men could participate fully in their government. Such a land, Penn believed, would indeed be blessed. Beginning with his petition to the king in May 1680 and ending with his departure to England in August 1684, this book contains the most important documents describing the founding of Pennsylvania. The letters, orders, petitions, charters, laws, pamphlets, maps, constitutional drafts, legislative journals, newspaper articles, memoranda, deeds, and other business records assembled here include Penn's own explanations of his desire to found a Quaker colony, his invitation to settlers, and his design for government. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Editorial Method | 11 |
S Negotiating the Charter for Pennsylvania | 17 |
Minute of the Committee of Trade 14 June 1680 | 24 |
Sir John Werden to William Blathwayt 16 October 1680 | 30 |
Warrant to the Privy Seal Office 28 February 1681 | 36 |
S Promoting the New Colony | 51 |
To Lord Baltimore 10 April 1681 | 57 |
William Kennerly to James Harrison 6 June 1683 | 281 |
From William Clarke 21 June 1683 | 284 |
Deed from the Delaware Indians 23 June 1683 | 287 |
To William Markham James Harrison and William Clarke 2 July 1683 | 288 |
Release of Customs Duty 2 July 1683 | 290 |
To Lord North 24 July 1683 | 292 |
Commission and Instructions to James Graham and William Haige 2 August 1683 | 293 |
From Margaret Lowther 4 August 1683 | 295 |
To Robert Turner Anthony Sharp and Roger Roberts 12 April 1681 | 66 |
S Selling Land to the First Purchasers | 69 |
VS The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania | 93 |
The Fundamental Constitutions summer 1681? | 99 |
First Draft of the Frame of Government | 109 |
The Frame of Government and Laws Agreed Upon in England | 118 |
Benjamin Furlys Criticism of The Frame of Government 1682 | 134 |
S Preparing to Leave for Pennsylvania | 141 |
Charter for the Free Society of Traders 24 March 1682 | 155 |
William and Jane Yardley to James Harrison 21 July 1682 | 164 |
Mortgage to Philip Ford 24 August 1682 | 172 |
Edward Jones to John ap Thomas 26 August 1682 | 178 |
S First Months in America October 1682May 1683 | 183 |
Negotiating with the Indians | 185 |
John Molls Account of the Surrender of the Three Lower Counties to William Penn 1682 | 186 |
To Philip Ford 1 November 1682 | 188 |
Writ to John Vines to Call an Election 8 November 1682 | 189 |
To William Blathwayt and Francis Gwyn 21 November 1682 | 190 |
John Viness Election Return 21 November 1682 | 191 |
Petition for an Act of Union 6 December 1682 | 192 |
To Justices of the Peace 21 December 1682 | 193 |
Minute of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 9 January 1683 | 194 |
Naturalization of Swedish Inhabitants 11 January 1683 | 197 |
To Jasper Batt 5 February 1683 | 199 |
To Lord Culpeper 5 February 1683 | 202 |
Laying Out Philadelphia Lots 17 March 1683 | 204 |
Tavern Regulations c 23 March 1683 | 206 |
From James Claypoole 1 April 1683 | 208 |
Early Census of Philadelphia County Inhabitants post 14 April 1683 | 212 |
To John Blaykling and Others 16 April 1683 | 216 |
From Joseph Harris 19 May 1683 | 218 |
The Pennsylvania General Assembly 10 March 16834 April 1683 | 223 |
Minutes of the Provincial Council and Assembly of Pennsylvania 10 March4 April 1683 | 226 |
The Second Frame of Government 2 April 1683 | 265 |
S Conflict with Lord Baltimore June 1683August 1683 | 275 |
To Lord Baltimore 6 June 1683 | 277 |
To Charles II 13 August 1683 | 297 |
To the Committee of Trade 14 August 1683 | 299 |
August 1683December 1683 | 305 |
Letter to the Free Society of Traders 16 August 1683 | 308 |
Gulielma Penn to Margaret Fox 21 August 1683 | 324 |
From William Haige 29 August 1683 | 325 |
To William Markham c 1 September 1683 | 328 |
From James Walliam and John White 8 September 1683 | 334 |
The Surveying of Germantown 12 October 1683 | 335 |
Purchase of the Mouth of the Susquehanna River 18 October 1683 | 336 |
To Tenants in New Castle Chester Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 9 November 1683 | 338 |
James Claypoole to Edward Claypoole 2 December 1683 | 340 |
Lord Baltimore to Richard Burke 7 December 1683 | 342 |
S Friction with the Colonists January 1684July 1684 | 347 |
From William Welch 18 February 1684 | 350 |
From James Harrison 23 February 1684 | 351 |
Positive Information from America by Francis Daniel Pastorius 7 March 1684 | 353 |
From Elizabeth Gretton 20 March 1684 | 361 |
From William Markham 27 March 1684 | 362 |
From Samuel Carpenter c April 1684 | 367 |
To John Simcock and Others 2 April 1684 | 369 |
From William Welch 5 April 1684 | 371 |
From Richard Davies 7 July 1684 | 373 |
Remonstrance from the Inhabitants of Philadelphia c July 1684 | 377 |
Return to England August 1684 | 385 |
Commission to President Thomas Lloyd and the Provincial Council 6 August 1684 | 388 |
Gardening Directions for Ralph Smyth August? 1684 | 389 |
Last Will and Testament 6 August 1684 | 390 |
To Gulielma Penn 6 August 1684 | 392 |
Farewell to Pennsylvania 12 August 1684 | 394 |
Abbreviations | 399 |
Glossary | 400 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 404 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History |
| Editor | Jean R. Soderlund |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983 |
| ISBN | 0812211316, 9780812211313 |
| Length | 432 pages |
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