About Penn, William Penn Elementary School

Penn, William (1644-1718) William Penn was born in England.  Much to the distress of his father, he converted to Quakerism at age twenty-two.  Suffering persecution in his native England for his beliefs, Penn traveled across the Atlantic and founded the Province of Pennsylvania, which is now the U.S. State of Pennsylvania.  The principles Penn established for the government of this new province would later heavily influence the Founding Fathers of the United States as they wrote the U.S. Constitution.

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