10 окт. 2024 г. · English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers.

William Penn was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn ... William Penn Jr. · Thomas Penn · Gulielma Penn · Richard Penn Sr.

William Penn was granted the Pennslyvania colony in 1682. Penn built Pennslyvania as a colony for religious freedom and peace with American Indians.

William Penn was the founder of Pennsylvania. He lived from 1644 to 1718 and was born to an upper-class admiral of the British royal navy.

The will of the people was more important to him than his own ideas about government. Penn's ideas inspired our nation's founding fathers. Penn's vision lives ...

1 янв. 2009 г. · William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania, promoted principles of freedom that helped lay the framework for First Amendment ...

10 окт. 2024 г. · In Pennsylvania Penn hoped to provide a refuge for Quakers and other persecuted people and to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.

On March 4, 1681, King Charles II of England granted William Penn a New World colony as payment for a debt of 16,000 pounds the King owed to Penn's father, ...

William Penn (October 14, 1644–July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the US state of Pennsylvania.