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
Province of Pennsylvania
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The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British colony situated on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard of North America. The colony was founded for religious thinker William P
John Penn (governor)
…in that office from 1763 to 1771 and from 1773 to 1776. Educated in Britain and Switzerland, he was also one of the Penn family proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1771 until 1776, holding a one-fourth share, when the creation of the independent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution…
Print by Thomas Campanius Holm depicting Lenni Lenape ("Original People"). Published in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1702.
The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Benjamin West's 1771 portrait of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenape
William Penn, entitled The True and absolute Proprietor of Pennsylvania