Early Colonial American society during the 17th and 18th centuries is characteristically bound by strong religious beliefs of Christianity. The New England inhabitants from Britain, who have established their respective colonies in the Americas, have brought with them their cultural histories; thus, this culture had been further developed in the new country to strengthen its new identity and culture as the American society. In colonial America, two religions dominated its cultural history: Puritans on one hand, and the Quakers, on the other. Puritanism was borne from the creation of a religion that seeks to fuse and at the same time,
In 1681 William Penn wanted more land, so King Charles agreed to give him a charter for the West New Jersey Colony. It was renamed and called Pennsylvania. Penn named the capital of the colony Philidelphia. Then in 1682, he received Delaware as a part if Pennsylvania.
In 1862 Penn met with the Native Americans again as purchased hundreds of acres of the land that is directly north of Philadelphia. During this time William Penn established a working relationship with the American Indians. As history books and articles reflect the settlers and Indians lived in peace with one another for a number of years. In 1718 another treaty to purchase more land was negotiated. Only this treaty was created and negotiated by Thomas Penn almost 19 years after the death of his father William Penn.
William Penn and the Quaker Legacy, An Analysis of How Personal Beliefs Can Save a Last Name in History. People's life is influenced not only by other people, but also by circumstances. Those influences defined the early character of the people, and on consequence, defined also their future decisions. In the book William Penn and the Quaker Legacy, the author, John A. Moretta, shows the different people and episodes that defined William Penn as an important person in the American History. The book shows a very biased version of Penn's life, presenting most of the episodes and the decisions in Penn's journey as positives.
William Penn, who is the son of Admiral Penn of the English navy and Lady Margaret, is shown to be a hard working individual fighting for his Quaker beliefs. Although Penn was born a Puritan who believed in individual importance to free the world of its impurities, he later converted and had a strong passion for the Quaker ideology of equality with the guidance of Thomas Loe. With these ideals in mind, Penn was determined to lead the Quakers towards religious tolerance in the holy land of Pennsylvania. William Penn grew up in a very harsh manner where living conditions were not ideal, which inevitably led to his beliefs in the Quaker ideology.
This is how Quakerism had much to do with William Penn’s religious
Jonathan Lee After England colonized the land known as New England today, the land was able to become prosperous through the middle 1600s. This was due to the Puritans, a religious group of people who came to New England after feeling threatened by other religious groups back in their homeland of Britain. They emigrated to New England and was able to develop society into a very religious intolerant society. Since there was a lack of societal conflict, the economy was able to prosper. The society in the New England colonies show were largely influenced by Puritan beliefs in education and religion.
The earliest English colonies of the 17th century held strong religious beliefs. The different religions the colonists had, influenced and determined certain rule within a colony. Some colonies believed that religious and state rule should be combined while other colonies believed it needed to be separated. Many early english colonists believed it important to abide by religious rule and cast others out that decided to rebel against the religious norm. All of these things contributed to the way religion affected the rule in the early english colonies of the 17th century.
Religion played that of a great role in the colonial regions. This is so, as colonies, mostly in New England, the colonial settlers were actually driven by religious intolerance in England. As stated in “Puritan New England: Kahn Academy”, “During the 1620s and 1630s, the conflict escalated to the point where the state church prohibited Puritan ministers from preaching. In the Church’s view, Puritans represented a national security threat because their demands for cultural, social, and religious reforms undermined the king’s authority. Unwilling to conform to the Church of England, many Puritans found refuge in the New World.”
William Penn founded Pennsylvania in March of 1681 for two main reasons. The first was to make money, and the other reason was to provide the Quakers with a safe haven in America. Pennsylvania was obviously named after the founder, William Penn it means "Penn 's Woods." Some of the hardships the colony had to overcome would be traveling, money, and the native Americans. Traveling across the Atlantic ocean to get to Pennsylvania was a struggle.
The colony of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia were frontiers in many ways; they were greatly influenced by William Penn’s ideas politically, religiously, and economically. William Penn was born in England in the city of London to Admiral William Penn and Margaret Jasper on October 14, 1644. Admiral Penn was a wealthy and important admiral who served in the parliamentary navy during the English Civil War or the Puritan Revolution. Penn was awarded much land, but he fell into the disfavor of the British monarch. A close friend of the Duke of York, Admiral Penn helped reinstate Charles II as the ruler of England- who later knighted him.
“What is so special about Pennsylvania? Who would be willing to go get settle there?” In the seventeenth century German colonists started moving to Pennsylvania. In 1700 there was an agent by the name of Francis Pastorius, he wrote a description of Pennsylvania as he lived there. Nearly fifth years later in 1754 Gottlieb Mittelberger wrote about his time in Pennsylvania in his book titled “Journey to Pennsylvania.”
They also wanted to escape being persecuted for their faith. The King of England gave them a charter to make a settlement along the Massachusetts Bay. The Puritans played leading roles in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, the Connecticut Colony in 1636, and the New Haven Colony in 1638. The first group of puritan settlers was led by John Endecott and his group settle in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1630 John Winthrop led a group of 1,000 settlers to come to that settlement, and John Winthrop became the Governor of that colony.
As time went on Shakers Quakers grew further was from Quakers and were referred to as strictly
Pennsylvania and Delaware The pennsylvania colony was one of the thirteen original colonies in America. The delaware colony was one of the thirteen colonies in America, which were divided into three regions including the New england colony , The Middle colonies , and the southern colonies. Pennsylvania was founded as a colony in 1681. Delaware was founded as a colony in 1638.
