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OF

WILLIAM

ILLIAM PENN,

THE

SETTLER OF PENNSYLVANIA,

THE

FOUNDER OF PHILADELPHIA, AND ONE OF THE FIRST LAWGIVERS IN THE COLONIES, NOW UNITED STATES, IN 1682.

CONTAINING ALSO,

HIS CELEBRATED TREATY WITH THE INDIANS-HIS PURCHASE OF THEIR COUNTRY-VALUABLE ANECDOTES OF ADMIRAL PENN-ALSO OF KING CHARLES II., KING JAMES II., KING WILLIAM, AND QUEEN ANNE, IN WHOSE REIGNS WILLIAM PENN LIVED CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LED HIM TO BECOME A QUAKER-WITH A VIEW OF THE ADMIRABLE TRAITS IN THE CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE CALLED FRIENDS OR QUAKERS, WHO HAVE DONE SO MUCH TC MELIORATE THE CONDITION OF SUFFERING HUMANITY.

.

BY M. L. WEEMS,

Author of the Life of Washington, &c.

Character of William Penn, by Montesquieu.

"William Penn is a real Lycurgus. And though the former made PEACE his principal aim, as the latter did WAR: yet they resemble one another in the singular way of living to which they reduced their people-in the astonishing ascendant they gained over freemen; and in the strong passions which they subdued."

Character of William Penn, by Edmund Burke.

"William Penn, as a legislator, deserves immortal thanks from the whole world. "Tis pleasing to do honour to those great men whose virtues and generosity have contributed to the peopling of the earth, and to the Freedom and Happiness of mankind; and who have preferred the interest of a remote posterity and times unknown, to their own fortune, and to the quiet and security of their own lives."

PHILADELPHIA:

URIAH HUNT & SON,

No. 62 NORTH FOURTH STREET.

CINCINNATI: APPLEGATE & CO.

1859.