- Author
- Heisey, M. Luther,
- Date of Publication
- 1944
this proposition—in lieu of the payment of the debt of
£16,000, a gift of land in the new world—America—would be acceptable. To
this the king readily agreed, promising William Penn land west of the Dela-
ware River, and for a name gave it Pennsylvania, "Penn's Woods." Lest
it should appear as a sign of