Penn's Manors Their Origin, Location and Number By M. LUTHER HEISEY A grant given to William Penn on March 4, 1681, contained several powers to erect manors. The following July 11, he agreed with the "adven- turers and purchasers" in England, who were interested in his grant and the settlement of

the Pequea Church, in history so closely attached to his family, 5 we find that he died July 18, 1742, and that he was 80 years of age, placing his birth in the year 1662, or possibIy the last half of 1661, depending on the month of his nativity. We know for a fact he was in Pennsylvania in 1693, 6