Penn had arranged his worldly affairs with his usual wisdom and foresight. While it might appear by the terms of the will that he had shown a preference for his son William’s children by leaving them the English property with its assured returns, his own receiving only the doubtful American possessions which of late had yielded a revenue of little more than five hundred pounds a year, yet as a matter of fact it was quite the reverse; for during the twenty years of peace and prosperity that followed the French and Indian war the value of the colonial property increased enormously. In 1797 the government of Pennsylvania paid the descendants of William Penn the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds for their rights of ownership, exclusive of all personal properties, as well as back-standing payments and rents due from the sale of lands left them by the founder of the State; while in England they also received the additional sum of five hundred thousand pounds voted by Parliament as indemnity for the losses suffered by him. The body of William Penn was laid to rest beside those of his first wife and their eldest son in the quiet churchyard of the village of Jordan in Buckinghamshire. Hundreds came from far and near to pay their last respects to the noble Quaker, and it needed not the eulogies pronounced over his grave to proclaim to the world that a great and good man had passed away. APPENDIX The following is a chronological statement of the more important events in William Penn’s life: 1644 Birth 1658 Death of Oliver Cromwell 1659 Penn enters Oxford 1660 Expulsion from Oxford 1660 Visits Germany 1664 War between England and Holland 1665 Penn in the naval service 1667 Adopts the Quaker faith 1668 Begins preaching 1670 Penn’s arrest 1672 Marriage 1673 Fresh Quaker persecutions 1677 Visits Holland 1681 Royal cession of land to Penn 1682 Penn goes to America 1682 Founding of Philadelphia 1682 Treaty made with the Indians 1683 The new constitution accepted 1684 Penn returns to England 1685 Death of Charles the Second 1688 Dethronement of James 1696 Second marriage 1699 Penn returns to America 1701 Penn goes back to England 1702 Penn imprisoned for debt 1710 Penn retires to private life 1718 Death of William Penn LIFE STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE _Translated from the German by_ GEORGE P. UPTON 36 Volumes Now Ready _American Explorers_ Columbus Pizarro Cortes Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky, and Other Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America _Historical and Biographical_