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Identifier: storyofournation00stra (find matches)
Title: The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ... together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton, Ella (Hines), Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he colonists,added Bessie. In 16S0 people thought that the world was coming to an end,prayers were offered, even in the grandest European churches,L J and fast clays were appointed. And all because of a great comet,which lasted more than five weeks, laughed Marion. Settlements had been slowly made in North Carolina since 1663,and in 1680 Charleston was founded, and the settlements in the Caro-linas were prosperous. The States were divided in 1729, said Phinnev. I think that William Penn comes next, said Marcella. One ot the greatest naval commanders of England was his father, who *■ - was very indignant when he became a Quaker, and turned him out of his home without a penny, but his mother gave him money. Every 118 KING PHILIPS WAR. effort was made to get him to renounce his faith—a high office, the favorof the king, and other inducements were held out to him, but refused. Did his father ever repent and recall him ? I suppose so, for when he was dying he said to him : Son William,
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WILLIAM PENN. if you and your friends keep to your plain way of living and preachingyou will make an end of the priests. When his father died he inheritedconsiderable property. He married a beautiful English woman of noblecharacter, who was much help to him. The Quakers were persecuted inEngland, as everywhere else, and to secure a peaceful home for them, KING PHILIPS WAR. 119 William Penn decided to buy and colonize a tract of land in America.His father had a claim against the English Government for about$80,000, which Charles II. was ready to accept for a parcel of land, aterritory very nearly like the present State of Pennsylvania, repliedCharlie. Did he name the State ? No, the king named it, and the name meant * Penns woods, or

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