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—

  1. 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.
  2. The Life of Penn prefixed to his Works, by Joseph Besse, a Quaker contemporary (1726).
  3. Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn, by Thomas Clarkson (London, 1813).
  4. 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.
  5. The Penns and the Penningtons, by Maria Webb (London, 1867), containing family letters.
  6. 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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