The Pearl of Great Price

Mar 4 - William Penn's holy experiment of Pennsylvania

Tim Byron Season 3 Episode 5

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Today King Charles II granted a royal charter to Quaker William Pen making him the largest (non-royal) landowner in the world.  Thus began his holy experiment of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.