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William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Oct 10, 2024 · William Penn (born October 14, 1644, London, England—died July 30, 1718, Buckinghamshire) was an English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.
Dec 1, 2019 · The last full-length biography of William Penn—proprietor and governor of Pennsylvania, who had significant impact on the founding generation of America's Republic—was published almost half a century ago.
Mar 24, 2021 · Addeddate. 2021-03-24 23:01:00. Associated-names. Dunn, Mary Maples, editor; Dunn, Richard S., editor; Bronner, Edwin B., 1920- William Penn's published writings, 1660-1726.
William Penn (October 14, 1644–July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The democratic principles that he set forth served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution.
Quick Reference. (1644–1718), a Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, was committed to the Tower in 1668 for publishing The Sandy Foundation Shaken (an attack on orthodox doctrines of the Trinity and the Atonement, and on the Calvinist theory of justification) and there wrote No Cross, No Crown (1669), an eloquent and learned dissertation on ...
The primary purpose of this bibliography is to provide a comprehensive checklist and summary of Penn’s published writings as a companion volume to the selected, representative collection of his unpublished writings found in the other four volumes of The Papers of William Penn.
