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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 permissian of his 

 Majesty, Kmg George the First, of blessed memory, 

 £tnd his predecessors. Kings and Queens of England, &c* 

 divers Protestants, who w^ere subjects to the Emperor of 

 Germany, a Prince in amity with the Cro\\Ti of Great 

 Bxitain, transported themselves and estates into the 

 province of Pennsylvania, between the years one thou- 

 sand seven hundred, and one thousand seven hundred 

 and eighteen; and since they came hither have con- 

 tributed very much to the enlargement of the British 



♦William Penn, the Proprietary and Founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania, died July 30, 1713, at Rushcomb, near Twj'ford, inr 

 Buckinghamshire, England, aged about seveniy-four years. — ■ 

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

 kind ; which, for the last sLx 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 cf a 

 christian sect, he has left no mean nam.e. He was a man cf 

 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 v.'riter, 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 Gulieima Maria Springett, 

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

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

 and Letitia. Springett died at the age cf tvventy-one yeai^s, 

 m 1696. William and Letitia, and three grand children 

 children of his son William, survived him. Kis second vvife 

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

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

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

 their father's death. 



