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William Penn
WILLIAM PENN
Life Stories for Young People
WILLIAM PENN
Translated from the German of
Hugo Oertel
BY
GEORGE P. UPTON
Translator of “Memories,” “Immensee,” etc.
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
CHICAGO
A. C. MCCLURG & CO.
1911
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1911
Published September, 1911
THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS
[W · D · O]
NORWOOD · MASS · U · S · A
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Translator’s Preface
The life of William Penn is one which cannotbe too closely studied by Americanyouth, and the German author of this littlevolume has told its story in most attractivestyle. Not one of the early settlers of the UnitedStates had loftier purpose in view, more exalted ambition,or nobler character. The brotherhood of manwas his guiding principle, and in seeking to carry outhis purpose he displayed resolute courage, inflexiblehonesty, and the highest, noblest, and most beautifultraits of character. He encountered numerousobstacles in his great mission—imprisonment andpersecution at home, slanders and calumnies of hisenemies, intrigues of those who were envious of hissuccess, domestic sorrows, and at last, and mostdeplorable of all, the ingratitude of the colonists asthe settlement grew, and in some cases their enmity.It is a shining example of his lofty character and fairdealing that the Indians, who were always jealous ofwhite men and suspicious of their designs, remainedhis stanch friends to the end, for he never brokefaith with them. His closing days were sad ones,and he died in comparative seclusion, but his namewill always be preserved by that of the great commonwealthwhich bears it and his principles by thename of the metropolis which signifies them. Thisworld would be a better one if there were moreWilliam Penns in it.
G. P. U.
Chicago, July, 1911
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Contents
Chapter Page
I William Penn’s Father—Childhood of Penn—Expulsion from Oxford for his Religious Views—Travels on the Continent 11
II The Plague and its Results—Penn as a Soldier—His Religious Struggle—Becomes a Quaker—Imprisonment for Attending Meetings—Death of his Father 24
III Penn’s Third Imprisonment—His Happy Marriage—Fresh Persecutions—Visits to Germany—Quaker Emigration 36
IV The Popish Plot—Settlement of Virgin                        
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