THE History of Pennsylvania, IN NORTH AMERICA, FROM THE Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, under WITH A N INTRODUCTION, RESPECTING, The Life of W. PENN, prior to the grant of the Province, and the religious 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. Written principally between the Years 1776 and 1780, BY ROBERT PROUD. <6 PULCHRUM EST BENEFACERE REIPUBLICÆ, ETIAM BENEDICERE HAUD ABSUR 46 SED CUM PLERIQUE ARBITRENTUR RES BELLICAS MAJORES ESSE QUAM URBANAS, Cic. Off. R VOLUME I. Philadelphia: PRINTED AND SOLD BY ZACHARIAH POULSON, JUNIOR, 1797. LIBRARY VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA |