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Penn

by Elizabeth Gray Vining · 1938

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A biography for young people of the man who renounced wealth and postition to become a Quaker, and who became governor and proprietor of the new colony of Pennsylvania.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
colonial Americacolonial AmericaMore like thisLess of thisPennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 287 pages

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