nce should be called
Pennsylvania, in honor of his dead friend the admiral. Thus Pennsylvania
received its name. The territory included in William Penn's charter
extended north from New Castle in Delaware three degrees of latitude and
five degrees of longitude west from the Delaware River. William Penn was
empowered to ordain all laws with the consent of the freemen, subject to
the approval of the king. No taxes were to be raised save by the
provincial assembly, and permission was given to the clergymen of the
Anglican church to reside within the province without molestation.

The charter for Pennsylvania was granted on March 14, 1681, and in the
following May, Penn sent William Markham, a relative, to take
possession of his province and act as deputy governor. A large number
of emigrants in the employ of the "company of free traders" who had
purchased lands in Pennsylvania of the proprietor, went with him. These
settled near the Delaware and "builded and planted."

With the assistance of Algernon Sidney, a sturdy republican, who soon
after perished on the scaffold for his views on personal liberty, Penn
drew up a code of laws for the government of the colony, that were wise,
liberal and benevolent, and next year sent them to the settlers in
Pennsylvania for their approval.

William Penn soon discovered that his colony was liable to suffer for
the want of sea-board room. He coveted Delaware for that purpose, and
resolved if possible to have it. This territory, however, was claimed by
Lord Baltimore as a part of Maryland, and for some time had been a
matter of dispute between him and the Duke of York. For the sake of
peace, the latter offered to purchase the territory of Baltimore; but
the baron would not sell it. Penn then assured the Duke that Lord
Baltimore's claim was "against law, civil and common." The duke gladly
assented to the opinion, and the worldly-wise Quaker obtained from his
grace a quitclaim deed for the territory, now comprising the whole of
the State of Delaware.

As soon as William Penn had accomplished his purpose, he made immediate
preparations for going to America, and within a week after the bargain
was officially settled, he sailed in the ship _Welcome_, with one
hundred emigrants, in August, 1682. Many of his emigrants died from
small-pox on the voyage; but with the remainder he arrived, early in
November, at New Castle, where he found almost a thousand emigrants. In
addition to these, there