Fisher
THIS BOOK, VOLUME 8 IN THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES, ALLEN
JOHNSON, EDITOR, WAS DONATED TO PROJECT GUTENBERG BY THE JAMES J.
KELLY LIBRARY OF ST. GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY; THANKS TO ALEV AKMAN.
THE QUAKER COLONIES, A CHRONICLE OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE
DELAWARE
By Sydney G. Fisher
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
II. PENN SAILS FOR THE DELAWARE
III. LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA
IV. TYPES OF THE POPULATION
V. THE TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS
VI. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
VII. THE DECLINE OF QUAKER GOVERNMENT
VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW JERSEY
IX. PLANTERS AND TRADERS OF SOUTHERN JERSEY
X. SCOTCH COVENANTERS AND OTHERS IN EAST JERSEY
XI. THE UNITED JERSEYS
XII. LITTLE DELAWARE
XIII. THE ENGLISH CONQUEST
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE QUAKER COLONIES
Chapter I. The Birth Of Pennsylvania
In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of
England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ
Church, Oxford.
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