It has been strongly pressed on myself, as the head of the Department, that the Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits a...
The colony was organized at the council held at Upland, August 3, 1681, the deputy governor being William Markham, a cousin of Penn. When Penn himself landed, October 28, 1682, at New Castle, Philadelphia had been laid out and a few houses had been built. After his landing Penn changed...