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 American Minute with Bill Fededrer
 
  March 10
 
  26-year-old William Penn received from King Charles II the charter to
  Pennsylvania on MARCH 10, 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to his
  deceased father Admiral Sir William Penn, who captured Jamaica and
  defeated the Dutch navy.
 
  A student at Oxford, William Penn was expelled for having his own
  prayer services in his dorm room instead of attending the Anglican
  chapel.
 
  Penn converted to Quakerism and was imprisoned in the Tower of
  London.
 
  His colony was a "holy experiment" for persecuted Europeans, one of
  the few original colonies to accept Mennonites, Amish, Catholics and
  Jews.
 
  Emphasizing his plan of Christian tolerance, William Penn named the
  city "Philadelphia," Greek for "Brotherly Love."
 
  History records that since William Penn insisted on treating the
  Delaware Indians honestly, paying a fair sum for the land, his city
  of Philadelphia was spared the Indian attacks and scalpings that
  other colonial settlements experienced.
 
  Before arriving, William Penn wrote to the Delaware chiefs:
 
  "My Friends, There is one...God...and He hath made...the king of the
  country where I live, give...unto me a great province therein,
 
  but I desire to enjoy it with your...consent, that we may always live
  together as...friends."