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=== History ===
=== History ===
==== Beginnings ====
==== Beginnings ====
Due to intense religious persecution of Penn's Quakers in [[England]], Penn and other prominent Quakers prepared for an emigration to [[America]], purchasing West Jersey in 1677, and later East Jersey in 1682 (the halves of [[New Jersey]]).<ref name=janney /> Penn in May 1680<ref name=phmc /> petitioned [[King Charles II]] for land between Lord Baltimore's province of Maryland, and the province of York belonging to the Duke of York.<ref name=founding /> Penn agreed to forgive the Crown its £16,000 debt due the Penn family in exchange for land on which to build a colony for England's persecuted minorities.<ref name=phmc /> On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted a generous [[charter]] to Penn which was officially proclaimed on April 2, making him the sole proprietor of modern-day Pennsylvania, in addition to the Jersey territory they had purchased.<ref>"[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/pa01.asp Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania-1681]." Lillian Goldman Law Library. ''Yale Law School''. The Avalon Project. Accessed April 18, 2012.</ref> In 1682, the Duke of York, later King James II of England, also gave to Penn the state of Delaware as well,<ref name=founding /> a total of more than 16 million acres. While Penn wanted the new territory named "New Wales" or "Silvania" ([[Latin]] for 'forest'), King Charles II insisted that it be called Pennsylvania in honor of Penn's father, the Admiral.<ref name=phmc /> In 1682 another royal grant included what later became the state of Delaware.
Due to intense religious persecution of Penn's Quakers in [[England]], Penn and other prominent Quakers prepared for an emigration to [[America]], purchasing West Jersey in 1677, and later East Jersey in 1682 (the halves of [[New Jersey]]).<ref name=janney /> Penn in May 1680<ref name=phmc /> petitioned [[King Charles II]] for land between Lord Baltimore's province of Maryland, and the province of York belonging to the Duke of York.<ref name=founding /> Penn agreed to forgive the Crown its £16,000 debt due the Penn family in exchange for land on which to build a colony for England's persecuted minorities.<ref name=phmc /> On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted a generous [[charter]] to Penn which was officially proclaimed on April 2, making him the [[sole proprietor]] of modern-day Pennsylvania, in addition to the Jersey territory they had purchased.<ref>"[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/pa01.asp Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania-1681]." Lillian Goldman Law Library. ''Yale Law School''. The Avalon Project. Accessed April 18, 2012.</ref> In 1682, the Duke of York, later King James II of England, also gave to Penn the state of Delaware as well,<ref name=founding /> a total of more than 16 million acres. While Penn wanted the new territory named "New Wales" or "Silvania" ([[Latin]] for 'forest'), King Charles II insisted that it be called Pennsylvania in honor of Penn's father, the Admiral.<ref name=phmc /> In 1682 another royal grant included what later became the state of Delaware.
==== Early History ====
==== Early History ====