Into the fullness of this life he entered on the 30th of July, 1718, being seventy-four years old.
The chief authorities for facts concerning William Penn are—
- The Select Works of William Penn (London, 1726; 3d edition, 1782; 5 vols). Whereof, The Trial of William Penn and William Mead (vol i.), Travels in Holland and Germany (vol. iii.), and A General Description of Pennsylvania (vol. iv.) contain autobiographical matter. Some Fruits of Solitude and Penn's Advice to his Children (vol. v.) are similarly valuable.
- The Life of Penn prefixed to his Works, by Joseph Besse, a Quaker contemporary (1726).
- Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn, by Thomas Clarkson (London, 1813).
- The Pennsylvania Historical Society Memoirs (vols. i., ii., iii.). Also the Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan, edited for this Society, by Edward Armstrong.
- The Penns and the Penningtons, by Maria Webb (London, 1867), containing family letters.
- Recent biographies of Penn: by William Hepworth Dixon (1851), by Samuel M. Janney (1852), by John Stoughton (1882), by Sydney George Fisher (1900).
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