USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Having recently helped to fund the Quaker colonization effort of West New Jersey, in 1681 Penn obtained a large grant of land from King Charles II in payment of a debt owed his father. This land grant would become Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pennsylvania colony was founded officially on April 2, 1681. The royal charter was signed by King Charles II on March 4, 1681 to grant the land to William Penn, which Penn established as a haven for Quakers.

Detailed explanation-3: -King Charles II owed William Penn £16, 000, money which his late father Admiral Sir Penn had lent him. Seeking a haven in the New World for persecuted Friends, Penn asked the King to grant him land in the territory between Lord Baltimore’s province of Maryland and the Duke of York’s province of New York.

Detailed explanation-4: -Penn used his diplomatic skills and political connections to free Quakers from jail and help them travel to America. In 1681, King Charles II granted him a charter to found a new colony in America. Penn arrived in America in 1682 and established the groundwork for the formation of the Pennsylvania colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings along the North Atlantic Ocean coast to Penn to pay the debts the king had owed to Penn’s father, the admiral and politician Sir William Penn. This land included the present-day states of Pennsylvania and Delaware.