William Penn was an English Quaker and the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Admiral William Penn. He was born on October 14, 1644, in London; Penn was educated at Christ Church, University of Oxford. While at Oxford he was converted to Quakerism. In 1666 his father sent him to Ireland to oversee his estates in county Cork. In Ireland his spiritual convictions brought him into divergence with the authorities, and he was incarcerated. On his return to England, Penn began work on a sacred swathe, The Sandy Foundation Shaken; the tract was published without a license, and Penn was jailed in the Tower of London. Throughout his custody he wrote his most famous book, No Cross, No Crown, and Innocency with Her Open Eyes (both 1669), a justification of himself that contributed to his freedom. In 1671 he served a six-month sentence in Newgate prison where he revised a beforehand printed dissertation on the doctrine of toleration entitled The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (1670, revised 1671).
He also wrote three other treatises during this time. In 1681 Penn obtained from the Crown, in payment for a debt owed to his father, a grant of territory in North America. With several friends, he sailed for America in September 1682, and in October he held his renowned interview with the Native American tribes. He intended and named the city of Philadelphia, and for two years he governed the colony shrewdly and fine. (Brown, Dale W)
Penn's holy experiment was initially his plan, and secondly naive to the point of utopianism. He wanted to set up a society that was religious, honorable and commendable for all of humanity. This pretentious, farsighted thought was not out of place in the history of American colonization,
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