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Whereas, By encouragement given by the Honorable 

 William Penn, Esq., late Proprietary* and Governor of 

 the province of Pennsylvania, and by permission of his 

 Majesty, King George the First, of blessed memory, 

 and hLs predecessors. Kings and Queens of England, &c. 

 divers Protestants, who were subjects to the Emperor of 

 Germany, a Prince in amity with the Crown of Great 

 Britain, transported themselves and estates into the 

 province of Pennsylvania, between the years one thou- 

 sand seven hundred, and one thousand seven hundred 

 and BigMeen; and since they came hither have con- 

 tributed very much to the enlargement of the British 



*\Villiam Penn, the Proprietary and Founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania, died July 30, 17W, at Rushcomb, near Twyford, in 

 Euckinghan^shire, England, aged about seventy-four years. — 

 In 1612, he had been seized witn some fits of the aDoplectic 

 kind; which, for the last six years of his life, had so affected 

 his mental faculties, especially his memory, as to render him 

 in a great measure incapable of public business; which, with 

 the gradual decline of his strength of body, continued to 

 increase till the last period of his days. As a leader of a 

 christian sect, he has left no mean name. He was a man of 

 more than ordinary zeal and courage; he was ardent and 

 enthusiastic, yet discreet. As a statesman, he was wise and 

 judicious. As an economist, liberal, even to his own pecu- 

 niary embarrassment. As a writer, much esteemed by his 

 friends. In his demeanor, it is said, he was grave, yet free 

 from moroseness. Christians are not morose. He had been 

 twice married; his first wife was Gulielma Maria Springctt, 

 daughter of Sir William Springett, of Darling, in Sussex; 

 with her he had two sons and one daughter, Springett, William 

 and Lctitia. Springett died at the age of twenty-one years, 

 in 1696. William and Lelitia, and three grand children 

 children of his son William, survived him. His second wife 

 was Hannah, daughter of Thomas Callowhill, of Bristol, by 

 whom he had five children, John, Thomas, Margaretta, 

 Richard and Dennis, who, with their mother, were living at 

 their father's death. 



