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11 de set. de 2024 · Sir William Penn (23 April 1621 – 16 September 1670) was an English admiral and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which is now the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
6 de set. de 2024 · In 1672 Penn married Gulielma Springett, a Quaker by whom he had eight children, four of whom died in infancy. In the 1670s Penn was tirelessly active as a Quaker minister and polemicist, producing no fewer than 40 controversial tracts on religious doctrines and practice.
- William Penn received a classical education at the Chigwell grammar school in Essex, England, and then matriculated at the University of Oxford (16...
- Having spent his early years in the Essex countryside, William Penn moved with his family to London and then to Ireland. After he was expelled from...
- Penn rejected Anglicanism and joined the Quakers (Society of Friends), who were subject to official persecution in England. He was the author of a...
- William Penn was an English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and ot...
Há 6 dias · Penn first married Gulielma Posthuma Springett (1644–1694), daughter of William S. Springett and Lady Mary Proude Penington. (The Posthuma in her name indicates that her father had died prior to her birth.)
20 de set. de 2024 · William Penn spent less than a total of three years in the province of Pennsylvania, was sued, placed in debtor's prison, died penniless, and with a contested will that led to his sons twice stealing Pennsylvania. Published June 08. 2013 09:02AM.
19 de set. de 2024 · His connexion with the Chalfonts dates from his friendship with Isaac Penington and his marriage in 1672 with Gulielma Springett, the step-daughter of Isaac Penington. After the marriage they lived at Basing House, Rickmansworth. Penn set sail for America in 1682 and returned in 1684.
5 de set. de 2024 · William Penn, a leading Quaker, was a slave owner who established his own slave plantation in Pennsylvania. The Quaker sons of William Penn were responsible for defrauding Native Americans out of vast areas of land.
Há 6 dias · The greater part of the ground W. of the house was purchased for a burial ground in 1671 by Thomas Ellwood and others; among those buried there are Isaac Penington, 1679, Mary Penington, 1682, Gulielma Maria Penn, 1689, Springett Penn, 1696, William Penn, 1718; all the head-stones were set up in 1862–3.
