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TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS




WILLIAM PENN


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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. DALLAS
ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

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TORONTO


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WILLIAM PENN

BY

RUPERT S. HOLLAND

AUTHOR OF
"HISTORIC BOYHOODS," "THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN SPUR," ETC.


New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1915

_All rights reserved_


COPYRIGHT, 1915,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1915.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




CONTENTS


CHAPTER I
                                        PAGE
WILLIAM PENN GOES TO COLLEGE               1


CHAPTER II

THE EARLY QUAKERS                          9


CHAPTER III

WILLIAM PENN TRAVELS                      18


CHAPTER IV

THE YOUNG QUAKER COURTIER                 25


CHAPTER V

PENN HELPS HIS FRIENDS                    36


CHAPTER VI

PENN BECOMES A MAN OF WEALTH              44


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