Show William Punished One of the great men in the settling of America was William Penn son of a wealthy Londoner who while at Oxford became a believer in the teachings of the FOR THIS he suffered many punishments throughout his including being expelled from Oxford and terms in Finally he received a tract of land in America is now Pennsylvania and in payment by the Kinf on a debt owed his He then recruited settlers for the new colony and sent a cousin to be the colony's first He himself drew plans for the laying out of in and a year afterward came to America to help establish the liberal Quaker government of the IT IS said he drew up a fair treaty with the Indians at on the a treaty never He spent four years in the American colony and built a large country house at opposite But in later life he was beset by new charges af and finally lost his fortune to dying in partly paralyzed by a in London in |