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Whereas^ By encouragement given by the Honorabk 

 William Penn, Esq., late Proprietary "^ and Governor of 

 the province of Pennsylvania, and by pemiissian of his 

 Majesty, King George the First, of blessed memory, 

 and his 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 

 Bi'itain, 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, 1718, at Rushcomb, near Twyford, in 

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

 In 1012, 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 mem.ory, 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 Springett, 

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

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

 and Letitia. Springett died at the age of tvrenty-one years, 

 in 1696. William and Letitia, and three grand children^ 

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

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

 VN^hom he had five children, John, Thomas, Margaretta, 

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

 their father's death. 



