On This Day March 4

In May 1680, the Quaker William Penn petitioned Charles II of England for a grant of land in the New World in settlement of the monarch’s debts to his family. The monarch took up the offer and on March 4, 1681 he granted Penn a a land charter for the area between Maryland and present-day western New York together with the right to govern it. The new colony was named Pennsylvania and Penn supervised the building of Philadelphia, which means "brotherly love" as its capital.

The Birth of Pennsylvania, 1680, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

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