answears, but by no means yield any point to my damage or ye countrys. God will give you wisdom, I hope, & I know you have as much as your neighbours. I would also you should know I have a Patent of the Lower Countys some years since, yt when there is an occation for it, you may alleadge so, but not otherwise, we are here in a troubled sea, & almost ready to sink under ye weight of wars, wch fill poor Europe wth misery & perticular Ireland & Flanders with desolation; & where things will pitch or when christendom will have peace, god alone knows, wherefore be wise & still & make your advantage by it, at ye markets of yt side of the world. Capt Blackwell is here, & upon occasion speaks hardly of friends there, especially as to govermt, & some think he designes to chainge yt modell; but I suspend my opinion at present, to be sure he is nettled with the rubs yt fell in his way in his administration there. I shall have him observed & act accordingly, pray countenance my com'rs of property upon all occasions & make ye best provision you can by ye powr you have from me, for your own & my property if any ill men should prevaile to shake things there, for good laws are some security. Let ye people of all nations and perswasions, have my kinde remembrance, I love & can never forget them, I have yet no coppy of the laws, I know they mescarried with the Tryall, but it has been these 3 years an objection agst me & you, & Therefore pray fail not to send them, as also your letters to Philip Ford, we hear a vessel from ye parts is founder'd by ye way, but I hope there is no such calamity befallen you. Live in love, I beseech you. Lett virtue & industry be encouraged and all Loosness (the baine of Nations) be punisht, and all mighty god be with you and yours, and do you good, every way, to whom I commit you, yt am, with much sincerity and ye truest affection, the countrys & your loving & true friend." PENN'S LETTER GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF GEORGE FOX. 23 PENN, WM. Autograph Letter, signed. 5 pp. 4to., Eng. 14th, 4th mo., 1691. With address. Franked with initial. "For my esteemed fr'd, Thos Lloyd, Keep'r of ye Seal and M'r of ye Roles in Pennsilvania." Printed entire in Proud's History of Pennsylvania. Vol. 1., p. 284. PENN'S LETTER COMPLAINING OF THE PROVINCE BEING UNABLE TO CHOOSE A DEPUTY GOVERNOR AND INTIMATING THAT GOVERNOR FLETCHER, OF NEW YORK, MIGHT STEP IN AND TAKE CONTROL. 24 PENN, WM. Autograph Letter, signed with initials. 4 pp. 4to. 29th, 4th mo., 1692. Printed entire in Proud's History of Penn. Vol. 1., p. 357 PENN'S LETTER IN REFERENCE TO THE DIVISIONOF THE PROVINCE AND THE PETULANCE OF THOS. LLOYD. 25 PENN, WM. Autograph Letter (signature cut off). 3 pp., 4to. London, 15th, 7th mo., 1693. 26 Not published. "Deare Friends: "I wonder I had no Letter from you upon so great a Revolution, & yet you have been more respectfull, Some of you, to thos yt have no thing to do, but as I employ you, with ye affaires there, then to me, yt am so deeply engaged & my family, But it has been too visible, too long and I have long agoe complained of it, I writt S. Jennings to you, of wt was like to ensue upon ye difference there, & ye conduct I thought felt to be taken, I writt to ye Gov. of York to have a care wt he did, and charged my legal right, as well as his obligations to me, tho I very darkly toucht upon yt. I had no time given me to write to you, & had rather whisper it to you by one of you then write it as a formall and publick letter, for good reasons, But I perceive T. LL. took pett at my silence and so left things drive to their present period, But after having chosen to divide my Province and Lower countys (once so earnestly desired to be united) rather than not be Dep. Gov. he might have stood upon his commission, Grounded upon a Legal and Solemn Patent, He needed no other argumt, my silence (had I been Silent) rather obliges T. LL. to have insisted upon his Legall right, because I had given no orders to the contrary than to make yt an argumt, to submitt. It is plain, yt the faction agst him have brought this to pass because I would not remove him, & they had rather I were outed than not carry their point agst him, & yet he, I hear, thinks I should have done more for him, now I know not but he may be come away, before this comes to your hands, so it is to you I write yt remain, I take well yr appearance of Integrity to me and am surprised at wt others have done agst my express order; but since they please my Service & ye Good of ye Province, I waite quietly to see ye effect of it, haveing sent word, yt if yt appear, I shall bear it ye better, but yt I cannot think so, If thos are disrespected, or affronted yt refuse employmts, in respect to me, and more of ye nature, &c. So Lett me hear how things goe," &c. PENN. WM. Autograph Letter, signed 3 pp., large folio. Bristol, 5-9, 1695. With Address. "For my Loveing Frds, A. Cook, S. Carpenter, Robt. Turner, J. Simcock, P. Pemberton, and D. Lloyd, or any two them, Pennsilvania." Not published. "Now Dr. frds. as for ye form of ye Governmt, and ye factious Persons yt disturb or threaten you. I referr you to my Cos. Markam's letter, but as to Gov'er objections, & wch this disaffected People will do us most hurt with, is your not only refuseing to send men but mony to N. Y. for a common defence, now our case is this, here we pay to carry on a vigorous war agst France, yt is the whol Title of the Acts, & so it is collected by ye comers of it, & frds here admire at the difficulty of the People there to pay, Saying it seems to contradict us here, especially, since it may be given under the Style off Peace and Safety, or to defray the excegences of the Govermt, & deposit it in such hands as may keep frds cleer from ye breach of thos Testimony, 27 28 & ye country from such complaints as may over sett ye Govermt again, or contradict frds here, yt pay much more barefacedly, others there will give besides frds & others pay as well as frds, so is a mixt thing, & for mixt Services, I entreat you to weigh this matter & apply some speedy remedy this affaire as you in wisdom shall think meet. I hope in ye Lord to see you, & in ye mean time perhaps you may see my son, a man Grown, & he will bring requisit countenance & wt I hope, you will be pleased with." Etc. PENN, WM. lines). 2 pp., folio. "For Nathaniel Letter, signed (with autograph postscript of 12 London, 8th, 2d mo., 1704. With address. -, Master of the Delaware, Brigantine, now loading at Cows or elsewhere, bound for Pennsilvania." Speaking in a disparaging manner about the indifference of the people of the province to the Government, he says: "I would not have my Officers & Magistrates walk to near the Edges & Ridges of the Powers of my Patent & Laws of the Country, so neither would I have them be cow'd, while they keep within compass thereof in the just execution of their Offices, but assert the powers of my Grant & Authority of their Laws, as with wisdom so with Resolution, for besides we have to do with a Disingenuous unsateable sort of people there, that I have done regarding in any other way than that of a just Authority, after their base treatment of me, the Cov'nt & People, other Provinces that have stood their Ground have lost nothing by it. To-wit: Carolina about its Vice-Admiralty, Road Island about the Captn-GenerlShip of their Militia, refusing Coll. Dudley, for wh they have the ablest Lawyers opinion upon their Charter, & Connecticut on every point doing the same. Now know I sent my Steward, Wm. Lickfould, to Ports'th to find thee out in ordre to have brought my Wife & Daughters, if not some of our children thither, but he learnt at the Widdow Arnolds that Thou was gone to Cows & the weather being exceeding wett & Tempestuous we stopt our Journey. I heartily wish you all a good voyage." Etc. PENN, WM. Contemporary Copy of his Letter to his Tenants. Dated Philadelphia, 9th, 9th mo., 1683. 4to. Accompanied by an autograph memoranda, in the handwriting and signed with the initials of David Lloyd, headed "Wm. Penn's Letter to His Tenants, with an address from ye people in 1684, digested by Thos. Rudyard,-with the proprietor's answer to the address [See Lot 1] come to my hands in 1701, and never seen by me before D LI" We quote Penn's letter: "Loving friends and Tennants "I kindly salute you and wish you heartly well. I have sent the bearer, James Atkinson, to gather in my Quit rents among you and you must not take it hard that I press you in this matter for you know that I receive neither Customs nor Taxes, but maintain my table & Governmnt at my own cost & charges, which is what no Governnor doth beside myself. This makes me endeavour to get in my own dues for my winter Supply, I expect you will all strive to answer me herein, and so engage the kindness of Your friend & Landlord." 29 30 PENN. Contemporary Copy of a Letter of the Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania. Arthur Cook, Jos. Simcock, Saml. Richardson, James Fox, and others, to Wm. Penn, on the state of the Province, dated Philadelphia, 18th, 11th mo., 16934, and a contemporary copy of Wm. Penn's letter in answer to the same, dated London, 24th, 2 mo., 1694. PENN, WM. Contemporary Copy of Wm. Penn's Letter to his Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania. Dated Hodedon, 11th, 10 mo., 169-. In poor condition. A very interesting letter in reference to his religious persecutions and pardon, and expressing a hope to soon visit America. THE FRANKFORT THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF GERMANTOWN, PHILADEL- 31 1686. THE ORIGINAL Printed Contract of Society of the Frankfort Land Company, composed of German subjects who purchased and owned land in Philadelphia in Pensilvania, viz: Gerhard von Mastricht, Thomas von Wylich, Johannes Le Brun, Francis Daniel Pastorious, Johan Jacob Schutz, Daniel Behagel, Jacob Van de Wallen, Johan William Peterson, Johannes Kemler, and Balthasar Jawert, with the signatures, seals, and coats-of-arms (in red wax) of each of them, executed, November 12, 1686. 4 pp., folio. An unique copy. This was Francis Daniel Pastorious' own copy. This is one of the earliest, if not the most interesting, existing documents relating to the settlement of Germantown, and their joint purchase of land, 25,000 acres, was the largest single purchase made of the Proprietor. There are three known copies of this document in existence: One owned by Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker, one by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and this, but this is the only known copy signed by Francis Daniel Pastorious, who was the prime factor in the contract, the other two having blank spaces for Pastorious' signature, which was never filled in. SEE FACSIMILE OF SIGNATURES. 32 PENN'S CHARTER OF LIBERTIES, 1683. WM. PENN'S Charter to the People comonly called the Charter of Liberties, Read to the members of the Provincial |