. In Pennsylvania they found a home. Penn gave them a popular government, with the right to elect an assembly to make the colony's laws. Soon after his arrival in 1682, Penn started dealings with the Delaware Indians. Several treaties of friendship were made. The most famous was signed on June 23, 1683, on the banks of the Delaware River. It stated that the colonists and the Indians would "live in love as long as the sun gave light." Penn built a home in Philadelphia, planning to stay. But after two years in the colony he was called to England on business. After the Revolution of 1688, Penn was suspected of helping the dethroned king, James II, and was arrested for treason. In 1692 he was deprived of his colony. Two years later the charges against him were dismissed, and he regained Pennsylvania. His wife died in 1694, and he remarried two years later. In 1699 he returned to Pennsylvania. During his absence the colony had changed. Twenty thousand people now lived in the province, and many of them knew nothing of Penn except that he owned their colony and held rights that they wanted. Penn granted their request for an even more democratic government. In 1701 he signed the Charter of Privileges, which remained in force until 1776. Late in 1701 business again called Penn to England. He never returned to America. He got into money troubles and spent nine months in a debtor's prison rather than pay the claims of a swindling steward. Friends obtained his release, but his health was gone. His last years were troubled by quarrels with Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, by disagreements with many Pennsylvanians, and by the dissolute ways of one of his sons. He died on July 30, 1718, in BuckinghamshireThe members of The Society of Friends are mostly called Quakers. A magistrate first used this name in Derby in 1650, when Fox was on trial for his beliefs. His followers trembled during religious excitement, and Fox asked the judge to ...
