Context–When Penn left town in 1701, he and the Legislature (personified by David & Thomas Lloyd) were bitterly divided. True, both had been on the
Category: Book 1
The final Frame: Charter of Privileges
Penn’s Back in Town: Revamp Real Estate/Settlement Strategy and Charter of Privilege He’s Back in Office–Penn arrived in December 1699. From the beginning he was
TIME OF TROUBLES (1684-1699): PENN’S PERFECT STORM
To put some perspective on Penn’s Frame of Government, his personal compact with the First Purchasers was based on what E. Digby Baltzell calls “the
Penn’s Philadelphia City-Building: plans conflict with settlement realities
the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Penn Whatever the well-thoughtful and inspirational qualities of Penn’s Made-in-England plans, his Frames, the Society of Free Traders,
penn’s approach to economic base-building
Penn’s Initial Approach to Economic Base-Building The Protestant ethic was never lacking in Quaker hard-working, long-suffering husbandman and entrepreneurs. Quakers had among their approximately 50,000
penn’s frame AND settlement politics
By conventional accounts, the Quakers–industrious, lower middle-class, equalitarian, and persecuted for their mystical religious beliefs–fled the oppressive government of a corrupt English society for the
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