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March 12th, 1683. During this session Penn created a 

 second frame of government, differing in some points 

 from the former, to which the assembly readily assented. 

 They also enacted a variety of salutary regulations, by 

 "Which the growing prosperity of the province was pro- 

 moted, and its peace and order preserved. In 1684, the 

 province and territories were divided into twenty-two 

 townships, containing 7,000 inhabitants, of whom 2,500 

 resided in Philadelphia.* This city already comprised 

 three hundred houses." 



On information received from his agent that his 

 presence was needed in England, and another addi- 

 tional cause, his dispute with Lord Baltimore, Penn 

 sailed for Europe, August 16, 1684; leaving the province 

 under the government of five commissioners, chosen 

 from the Provincial council. Previous to his departure 

 he had made, according to Oldmixon, a league of amity 

 with nineteen Indian nations, between them and all the 

 English America 



*John Key, born 1682, in a cave, long afterwards known by 



the name of Penny-pot, near Sassafras street, was the first 



child born of English parents in Philadelphia, in compliment 



of which William Penn gave him a lot of ground; he died at 



Kennet, in Chester county, July 5, 1767, aged 85 years. — 



Proud. 



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