Province Of Pennsylvania
The
Province of Pennsylvania
, better known to Americans as
Pennsylvania Colony
, was a
North America
colony granted to
William Penn
in
1681
by
King Charles II of England
. It was also sometimes called the
Quaker Province
because of the founder's religion, the
Society of Friends
, better known as the "Quakers." One of the
Middle Colonies
, it later joined the
United States
as
Pennsylvania
. Pennsylvania was a
proprietary colony
. The historic
Mason-Dixon line
was drawn in 1763, while Pennsylvania and the neighboring
Province of Maryland
were still colonies. The three counties of the
Delaware Colony
were originally part of the Province of Pennsylvania.
See also
History of Pennsylvania
Restoration colony
External link
William Penn: Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682
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