. Il nostro più grande paese; essendo uno standard della storia degli Stati Uniti dalla scoperta del continente americano per il tempo presente ... a vela, scrisse a hiswife, a cui egli si era dedicato con tutto theardor della sua gioventù : Vivere bassa e spar-ingly fino a quando i miei debiti da pagare ; desidero notriches, ma a dovere nulla; essere liberali e thepoor tipo a tutti. Per quanto riguarda theirchildren, scrisse: Lasciate che il loro apprendimento beliberal; spare nessun costo, da tali parsimonyall è perduto che viene salvato. Penn ha avuto con lui uno hundredemigrants e hanno raggiunto il Newcastle su thetwenty settimo di ottobre, 1682 dopo un basso

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. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... to sail, he wrote to hiswife, to whom he was devoted with all theardor of his youth : Live low and spar-ingly till my debts be paid ; I desire notriches, but to owe nothing; be liberal to thepoor and kind to all. With regard to theirchildren, he wrote: Let their learning beliberal; spare no cost, for by such parsimonyall is lost that is saved. Penn took out with him one hundredemigrants, and reached Newcastle on thetwenty-seventh of October, 1682, after a longand trying voyage. In the presence of theSwedish, Dutch and English settlers, whowelcomed him with joy, he took formal pos-session ot the province, which was surren-dered to him by the agents of the Duke ofYork. He pledged himself to the people togrant them liberty of conscience and all theircivil privileges. From Newcastle Penn wentup the river to Chester, where a settlementhad been formed by emigrants from thenorth of England, who had preceded him. Early in November, accompanied by a fewfriends, Penn ascended the Delaware in an. 220 COLONIZATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. 221 open boat to tlie mouth of the Schuylkill, and passing a little distance beyond this, landed on the beautiful site now occupied bythe city of Philadelphia. Tiie place atwhich he landed was long known as the Blue Anchor Landing, from a tavern ofthat name which stood there. A little later, under a spreading elm, Penn met the chiefsof the neighboring Indian tribes and enteredinto a treaty of peace and friendship withthem. This treaty was confirmed by nooath, but it remained unbroken for fiftyyears, and as neither side sought to evade itsobligations, which were simply of peace andgood will, the colony of Pennsylvaniaescaped in its earlier years the horrors of asavage warfare from which the other settlerssuffered. We will live, said the Indiansachems, in love with William Penn andhis children as long as the moon and the

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