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Title: The Quaker Colonies, A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the
Delaware

Author: Sydney G. Fisher
THIS BOOK, VOLUME 8 IN THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA
SERIES, ALLEN JOHNSON, EDITOR, WAS DONATED TO
PROJECT GUTENBERG BY THE JAMES J. KELLY LIBRARY OF
ST. GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY; THANKS TO ALEV AKMAN.
THE QUAKER COLONIES, A CHRONICLE OF THE
PROPRIETORS OF THE DELAWARE
By Sydney G. Fisher
New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA II. PENN SAILS FOR THE
DELAWARE III. LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA IV. TYPES OF THE
POPULATION V. THE TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS VI.
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR VII. THE DECLINE OF
QUAKER GOVERNMENT VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW
JERSEY IX. PLANTERS AND TRADERS OF SOUTHERN JERSEY
X. SCOTCH COVENANTERS AND OTHERS IN EAST JERSEY XI.
THE UNITED JERSEYS XII. LITTLE DELAWARE XIII. THE
ENGLISH CONQUEST BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE QUAKER COLONIES

Chapter I.
The Birth Of Pennsylvania
In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England,
William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church,
Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had
abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie
to his own again. Young William was associating with the sons of the
aristocracy and was receiving an education which would fit him to
obtain preferment at Court. But there was a serious vein in him, and
while at a high church Oxford College he was surreptitiously attending
the meetings and listening to the preaching of the despised and
outlawed Quakers. There he first began to hear of the plans of a group

of Quakers to found colonies on the Delaware in America. Forty years
afterwards he wrote, "I had an opening of joy as to these parts in the
year 1661 at Oxford." And with America and the Quakers, in spite of a
brief youthful experience as a soldier and a courtier, William Penn's life,
as well as