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Drawn from the Original Bust in the Loganian Library Philadelphia 1.Nov 1797

THE

History of Pennsylvania,

IN

NORTH AMERICA,

FROM THE

Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, under
the first Proprietor and Governor WILLIAM PENN,
in 1681, till after the Year 1742;

WITH A N

INTRODUCTION,

RESPECTING,

The Life of W. PENN, prior to the grant of the Province, and the religious
Society of the People called Quakers;-with the first rife of the neighbouring
Colonies, more particularly of Weft-New-Jersey, and the Settlement
of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A brief Defcription of the faid Province,

AND OF THE

General State, in which it flourished, principally between the Years 1760 and 1770.

The whole including a Variety of Things,

Useful and interesting to be known, refpecting that Country in early Time, &c.
With an APPENDIX.

Written principally between the Years 1776 and 1780,

BY ROBERT PROUD.

<6 PULCHRUM EST BENEFACERE REIPUBLICÆ, ETIAM BENEDICERE HAUD ABSUR
DUM EST, VEL PACE VEL BELLO CLARUM FIERI LICET." Sal. Catalin.

46

SED CUM PLERIQUE ARBITRENTUR RES BELLICAS MAJORES ESSE QUAM URBANAS,
MINUENDA EST HEC OPINIO. 39

Cic. Off.

R

VOLUME I.

Philadelphia:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY ZACHARIAH POULSON, JUNIOR,
NUMBER EIGHTY, CHESNUT-STREET.

1797.

LIBRARY

VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

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