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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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largely disappeared acrossthe sea. She had promised, in 1717, more to the butcherthan she could pay. Load succeeded load. But her letterswere courageous, telling of warm clothing, of pigs andgeese, of lemons and shrimps, of bills, and of doctors.Now and then she said, ^ I am weary. To her son Thomasshe wrote: I would not have thee want Stockens—but for a new Coat, ifthou can spare it this winter do. To her agent, James Logan, went many letters, very clearand firm, guiding Pennsylvania with greater success thanthe great Proprietor had been able to do. In 1723,she was living in London, perhaps with her son John, andwas brave and well, and there she died, 20 December,1726. The frontispiece is from the Independence Hall portrait.The reader may well ask why Hannah Penns face is oppo-site the title-page of this book, when she was for so shorta time in America. There is but one answer: We like herface and we admire her brave spirit. Howard M. Jenkinss The Family of William Penn, 1899. 286
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HANNAH PENN 1664-1726 (287) THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY TlLDt: N FOUNSA ■■ ir-N? William Penn, the Quaker who lost a fortune in found-ing a state, was born, 14 October, 1644, near the Towerof London, the son of Captain Penn, of the Fellowship,better known in later life as an admiral: the Sir W. Penof Pepyss Diary. The father was thrifty, brave, hottempered, a good comrade; his wife, Margaret Jasper,was, if we may believe half of Pepyss stories, short, fat,indiscreet, and a romp. Educated at Chigwell and byprivate tutors, young Penn entered Oxford in 1660. Hehad been fond of athletics, but soon turned towards mysti-cism and pietism. From Oxford he was soon expelled, wentto France, and returned in 1664, with a great deal of thevanity of the French garb, and affected manner of speechand gait. He and Pepys, however, made mighty merryover the young mans story of his travels. He soon wasat the siege of Carrickfergus, in Ireland, and had his por-trait painted in armour—the only one done

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