A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns

Title

A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns

Author

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

Publication

[London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,

1681?]

Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms

Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Link to this Item

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54104.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54104.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• A brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania, Lately Granted by the KING, Under the GREAT Seal of England, TO WILLIAM PENN AND HIS Heirs and Assigns.
  • I. The KING'S Title to this Country before he granted it.
  • II. William Penn's Title from the KING.
    • An Abstract of the Patent GRANTED BY THE KING, To VVilliam Penn. &c.
    • The KING's Declaration TO The Inhabitants and Planters of the Province of PENNSYLVANIA.
  • III. The Reason of the Grant.
  • IV. Of the Country, and its Produce.
  • V. Of the present Inhabitants.
  • VI. What the Country is believed capable of.
  • VII. Of the Government.
  • VIII. Of the Conditions.
  • IX. Persons fittest for Plantations.
  • X. What is fit for the Journey, and first to be done there.
• POSTSCRIPT.
• colophon