John Penn (governor)
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John Penn was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the last royal governor of colonial Pennsylvania, serving in that office from 1763 to 1771 and from 1773 to 1776. Educated in Britain
John Penn, colonial governor of Pa
Anne Allen a 1763 portrait of John Penn's wife Anne by Benjamin West, now housed in the Cincinnati Art Museum
John Penn (writer)
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John Penn was a British politician and writer who was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1776. He and his cousin, John Penn held unsold property, of 24,000,000 acres, wh
John Penn (governor)
…American Revolutionary War, the unsold lands of the proprietorship were confiscated by the new state government, but it provided Penn and his cousin, John Penn, who held three-fourths of the proprietorship, with compensation. They both also appealed to British Parliament, which granted them additional compensation…
Bust of Penn
"The Solitude" (1785), designed by Penn. Now part of the Philadelphia Zoo.
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges