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Excerpt from Travels Through the United States of North America, Vol. 4: The Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; With an Authentic Account of Lower Canada The English government had given Admiral Penn reason to expect the cession of this country to him, in payment of a considerable sum due to him from the public. The Admiral died before any thing was done in the affair; and the petition presented by William Penn, after his death, to claim the execution of the promise, was long opposed by the agents of Lord Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland. It was riot till towards the conclusion of the year 1681, that Charles the Second signed William Penn's charter. At this time several spots on the banks of the Delaware were inhabited. They were at first part of the province of New York occupied by Dutch settlers, and afterwards were in the possession of the Swedes; till, in 1664, they were finally united to the crown of England. The motives mentioned in the preamble of the patent granted to William Penn are, the services of Admiral Penn, and the laudable intentions of his son to add to the grandeur of the British empire, by cultivating such branches of commerce in the territories ceded to him as would enrich Great Britain, and by civilising the savage nations of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.