Passages From the Life And Writings of William Penn
Passages From the Life And Writings of William Penn
Thomas Pym Cope
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Claypole, IST. Moore, P. -Forde, and others formed a company, which they called, " The Free Society of Traders in Pennsylvania. " They pur- chased twenty thousand acres of land in trust for the said company, and prepared for embarking in many branches 21 Q 242 PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE of trade. Other persons purchased also, and among these a great number of Friends from Wales. It was necessary, before any of the purchasers em- barked, that they should know something of the political constitution ...under which they were to live in the new land, as well as that it should be such as they approved. William Penn accordingly drew up a rough sketch, to be submitted to their opinion, of that great frame of govern- ment which he himself wished to become the future and permanent one of the province. It consisted of twenty- four articles. These were preceded by what he called his first or great fundamental, by which he gave them that liberty of conscience which the laws of their own country denied them, and in behalf of which he had both written and suffered so frequently himself.
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