Penn, William
the founder of Pennsylvania, was born Oct. 14, 1644, in London, England. He obtained from the king, Charles II., a tract of land west of the Delaware and north of Maryland, in payment for claim against the government which he inherited from his father. He sailed from England in September, 1682, and in November of the same year held the famous treaty with the Indians which was the only league between the aborigines and the Christians that was never sworn to, and the only one never broken. He died July 30, 1718, in England.
PENNELL, MRS. ELIZABETH [ROB- INS], author. She is a writer who has lived in London for many years; and the author of Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Canterbury Pilgrimage; Two Pilgrims' Our Sentimental Progress; Journey through France and Italy; Our Journey to the Hebrides; To Gipsyland; Play in Provence; and The Feasts of Autolycus.