The William Penn High School for Girls was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Philadelphia Phillies went on to win the 2008 World Series that year. It is approximately 2 feet by 2 feet. [76] That same year, two hundred settlers from the towns of Chorleywood and Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire and other towns in nearby Buckinghamshire arrived, and founded the town of Burlington. He is therefore considered the first thinker to suggest the creation of a European Parliament and what would become the modern European Union in the late 20th century (See An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe (1693)). 14 October] 1644 - 10 August [ O.S. The Quaker Oats Company's website currently claims their logo is not a depiction of William Penn.[138]. As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. Young Penn reflected on the suffering and the deaths, and the way humans reacted to the epidemic. Mrs. Ford took her case to court. Protective "glass," or Tru Vue Optium Acrylic glazing, which is shatter resistant, 99% UV protective, and anti-reflective. This "hinging" is done according to archival standards. William Penn married Hannah when she was 25 and he was 52. [112] Despite the protests of fundamentalists and farmers, Penn's insistence that Quaker grammar schools be open to all citizens was producing a relatively educated workforce. The middle class aligned itself with the royalists and Admiral Penn was sent on a secret mission to bring back exiled Prince Charles. The Raab Collection. Penn became a close friend of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, whose movement started in the 1650s during the tumult of the Cromwellian revolution. He had made many generous loans which he failed to press. William Penn Foundation announces new grants | Philanthropy Network Penn joined the Royal Navy, and rose to the rank of rear admiral by 1645. In 1681, Charles II of England granted William Penn approximately 45,000 square miles of land in the New Worldthe region now known as Pennsylvania. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Middle Georgia State University in Macon, Georgia. "[33] While Penn was abroad, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed central London. The First Purchasers who responded to his promotional tracts provided essential economic support for Penns Holy Experiment.. [7] Penn's father was often at sea. Internal political conflicts even threatened to undo the Pennsylvania charter. Two years after Gulielma's death he married Hannah Margaret Callowhill (16711726), daughter of Thomas Callowhill and Anna (Hannah) Hollister. [133], On 28 November 1984 Ronald Reagan, by Presidential Proclamation 5284 (authorized by an Act of Congress), declared William Penn and his second wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn, each to be an Honorary Citizen of the United States.[134].