Author |
: Sydney George Fisher |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105048920651 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Quaker Colonies by : Sydney George Fisher
Download or read book The Quaker Colonies written by Sydney George Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young William was associating with the sons of the aristocracy and was receiving an education which would fit him to obtain preferment at Court. But there was a serious vein in him, and while at a high church Oxford College he was surreptitiously attending the meetings and listening to the preaching of the despised and outlawed Quakers. There he first began to hear of the plans of a group of Quakers to found colonies on the Delaware in America.