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was granted to him.* Having learned the advantages 

 offered to settlers in West New Jersey, he spared neither 

 pains nor time to point out to brethren of the same faith 

 the benefits to be derived in settling here ; and, on his 

 suggestions, many of them emigrated thither, pur- 

 chased land, and built towns and villages, principally on 

 the eastern shore of the Delaware river; and several of 

 them settled as early as 1675, at Upland, now Chester, 

 Kensington, and several other places, on the west bank 

 of the Delaware. 



Having spent much time in the laudable employment 

 of ameliorating the condition of others, he projected the 

 design to colonize the country contiguous to that, which 

 he had been the chief instrument to settle ; he availed 

 himself of his favorite estimation, which the eminent 

 services of his fother had gained him, and petitioned 

 King Charles H. that in lieu of a large sum of money, 

 due his father, from the government,! at the time of his 

 death, letters patent might be granted him, for a tract of 

 land in America, "lying north of Maryland; on the east, 

 bounded by Delaware river; on the west, limited as 

 Maryland; and northward, to extend as far as plantable." 



*Proud I. 136, 137. Penn despatched no less than eight hun- 

 dred seUlers during the year 1677— '78, for West New Jersey; 

 these were mostly Quakers and persons of property and res- 

 pectability. 



fHis father, distinguished, in English History, by the con- 

 quest of Jamaica, and by his conduct, discretion and courage 

 in the signal battle against the Dutch in 1665, bequeathed to 

 his son, a claim on the government for sixteen thousand pounds. 

 Massachusetts had bought Maine for a little more than one 

 thousand pounds; then, and long afterwards, colonial property 

 was lightly esteemed; and to the prodigal Charles II. always 

 embairatsed for money, the giant of a province seemed tha 

 easiest mode of cancelling the debt — Bancroft, II. 303. 



