...William Penn was read, praying, in consideration of debts due to him or his father, from the Crown, to grant him Letters Patent for a Tract of Land in America, lying North of Maryland; on the East bounded with Delaware river, on the West limited as Maryland, and Northward to extend as...

...— ORGANIZATION OF COUNTIES, ETC. In 1680, William Penn petitioned King Charles II, of England, to grant him "letters patent for a tract of land in America, lying north of Maryland, on the east bounded by the Delaware river, on the west limited as Maryland, and northward to extend...

...Majesty King Charles the Second, in Consideration of Debts due to him or his Father from the Crown, to grant him Letters Patent, for a Tract of Land in America, lying North of Maryland on the East bounded with Delaware River, on the West limited as Maryland, and Northward to extend as...

...to Penn. — In 1680, William Penn petitioned Charles II. to grant to him, in lieu of the money owed him, letters patent for a tract of land in America, lying north of Maryland, bounded on the east by the Delaware river, on the west to be limited as Maryland was, and to extend...

...territory, and interested in colonization, until in the spring of 1680 he decided to become a proprietor in his own right. He asked that in consideration of...Plantations, who ordered on the 14th instant that copies of his petition be sent to Sir John Worden in behalf of his Royal Highness, and unto the agents...

...territory, and interested in colonization, until in the spring of 1680 he decided to become a proprietor in his own right. He asked that in consideration of...Plantations, who ordered on the 14th instant that copies of his petition be sent to Sir John Worden in behalf of his Royal Highness, and unto the agents...

...territory, and interested in colonization, until in the spring of 1680 he decided to become a proprietor in his own right. He asked that in consideration of...Plantations, who ordered on the 14th instant that copies of his petition be sent to Sir John Worden in behalf of his Royal Highness, and unto the agents...

...territory, and interested in colonization, until in the spring of 1680 he decided to become a proprictor in his own right. He asked that in consideration of...Plantations, who ordered on the 14th instant that copics of his petition be sent to Sir John Worden in behalf of his Royal Highness, and unto the agents...

...the Quakers could worship unmolested according to their peculiar belief, he asked King Charles II. to grant him "letters patent for a tract of land in America, lying north of Maryland, on the east bounded by the Delaware river, on the west limited as Maryland, and northward to extend...

...projects, he petitioned Charles II to grant him, in lieu of the sum owed to him by the British Government, "letters patent for a tract of land in America, lying north of Maryland, on the east bounded by the Delaware River, on the west limited as Maryland, and northwest to extend...