Richard Penn (governor)
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Richard Penn Jr. served as the lieutenant governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1771 to 1773, and was later as a member of the British Parliament from 1784 to 1791.
President's House in Philadelphia, which later served as the presidential mansion for George Washington and John Adams between 1790 and 1800
Olive Branch Petition
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The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in
Richard Penn (governor)
…1773 to 1774. After the American Revolutionary War commenced in 1775, he retired, and the Second Continental Congress charged him with delivering the Olive Branch Petition to the King George III that summer. George III, however, refused to accept the petition, but Penn met with the House of Lords to discuss the views of…
Signature page of the Olive Branch Petition, with John Hancock's prominent signature at the top