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yield to tlie mind of Providence, and cheerfully, as Avell as carefully, em- 

 brace and follow tlie guidance of it. 



XXXIII. "For your particular concern, I might entirely refer you to 

 the letters of the President of the Society ; but this I will venture to say, 

 your provincial settlements, both within and without the town, for situa- 

 tion and soil are without exception. Your city lot is a whole street, and 

 one side of a street, from river to river, containing near one hundred 

 acres, not easily valued ; which is besides your four hundred acres, in the 

 city liberties, part of your twenty thousand acres in the country. Your 

 tannery hath such plenty of bark, the saw mill, for timber, and the 

 place of the glass house., are so conveniently posted for water carriage, the 

 city lot., for a dock., and the tohalery, for a sound and fruitful Ixink, and the 

 town Lewis, by it to help your people, that, by God's blessing, the affairs 

 of the Society will naturally grow in their reputation and profit. I am 

 sure I have not turned my back upon any offer that tended to its pros- 

 perity; and though I am ill at projects, I have sometimes put in for a 

 share with her ofi&cers, to countenance and advance her interest. You 

 are already informed what is fit for you further to do : whatsoever tends 

 to the promotion of wine, and to the manufacture of linen, in these parts, 

 I cannot but wish 3'ou to promote; and the French people are most 

 likely, in both respects, to answer that design. To that end I would 

 advise you to send for some thousands of plants out of France., Avith some 

 able Vincrons., and people of the other vocation : But because, I believe, 

 you have been entertained with this, and some other profitable subjects 

 by your President,^ I shall add no more, but to assure you, that I am 

 heartily inclined to advance your just interest, and that you will always 

 find me Your I' ind cordial friend., 



William Penn." 



''Philadelphia^ tlte 16th 0/ the Sixth, month., called August., 1683." 



The controversy with Lord Baltimore, concerning boundaries, was a 

 subject of great anxiety to Penn, who resisted the high-handed and 

 aggressive measures of the former with gentle and courteous firmness. 



In the beginning of 1684 a number of people from Maryland made a 

 forcible entry on several plantations in the lower counties, whereupon the 

 Governor and Council at Philadelphia sent a written remonstrance to 

 Lord Baltimore's demand, with orders to William Welsh to use his in- 

 fluence to reinstate the persons who had been dispossessed, and in case 

 mild measures should prove unavailing, legally to prosecute the invaders ; 

 the remonstrances had, temporarily, the desired effect, but some inhabit- 

 ants were threatened the next month with similar outrages, if they should 

 persist in refusing to be under Lord Baltimore. The government issued 



1 Nicholas jMooic. 



