Penn's Settlement on the River of Susquehannagh by A. Day Bradley Some nine years after the grant of Pennsylvania, William Penn published in London plans for the establishment of a settlement on the Susquehanna. A prospectus, Some Proposals for a Second Settle- ment in the Province of Pennsylvania

convened in mid-October, orders from the English government to issue letters of Marque, and a request from John Penn that he try to establish a provincial militia had landed on Governor Thomas' desk. Thomas, an old military officer, needed no further encouragement; he asked the legislature to put the