Author:William Penn

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William Penn
(1644–1718)

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Founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. state of Pennsylvania; an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his treaty with the Lenape Indians

Works

The Sandy Foundation Shaken, or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines ... refuted from the authority of Scripture testimonies, and right reason (1668)
No Cross, No Crown (1669)
True Spiritual Liberty (1681) [1]
Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims (1682) [2]
Frame Of Government Of Pennsylvania (1682) From the Avalon Project, Yale Law School. [3]
Letter to his wife, Gulielma (1682) [4]
A Key (1692) [5]
Primitive Christianity Revived (1696) [6]
Preface to George Fox's Journal (1694) [7]
An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates (1693) [8]
Charter of Delaware

Works about Penn

"Penn, William," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Penn, William (1644-1718)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Penn, William," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
“The story of a young Quaker,” in The Coming of the White Men (1905) by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
"Penn, William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Penn, William," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Penn, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Penn, William (English Quaker)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Penn, William," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Penn, William," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
William Penn by John Greenleaf Whittier
Public Law 98-516, enacted October 19, 1984, by the 98th Congress of the United States
Proclamation 5284, 28 November 1984, by Ronald Reagan
"William Penn, the Friend of Catholics" (1886), by Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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