uraging,
brought their own rich rewards, not only in higher individual
development, but in an improved public opinion and more liberal
legislation in regard to the rights of women in that State.

FOOTNOTES:

[55] "The Relation of Woman to Industry in Indiana," by May Wright
Sewall.

[56] The vast audience of women alone, in Apollo Hall, to discuss the
McFarland and Richardson tragedy.

[57] See Appendix.

[58] See Appendix.

CHAPTER X.

PENNSYLVANIA.

William Penn--Independence Hall--British troops--Heroism of
women--Lydia Darrah--Who designed the Flag--Anti-slavery
movements in Philadelphia--Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a
mob--David Paul Brown--Fugitives--Millard Fillmore--John
Brown--Angelina Grimke--Abby Kelly--Mary Grew--Temperance in
1848--Hannah Darlington and Ann Preston before the Legislature--
Medical College for Women in 1850--Westchester Woman Rights
Convention, 1852--Philadelphia Convention, 1854--Lucretia
Mott answers Richard H. Dana--Jane Grey Swisshelm--Sarah Josepha
Hale--Anna McDowell--Rachel Foster searching the records.

In 1680, Charles II., King of England, granted to William Penn a tract
of land in consideration of the claims of his father, Admiral Penn,
which he named Pennsylvania. The charter for this land is still in
existence at Harrisburg, among the archives of the State. The
principal condition of the bargain with the Indians was the payment of
two beaver skins annually. This was the purchase money for the great
State of Pennsylvania.

Penn landed at New Castle October 27, 1682, and in November visited
the infant city of Philadelphia, where so many of the eventful scenes
of the Revolution transpired. Penn had been already imprisoned in
England several times for his Quaker principles, which had so
beneficent an influence in his dealings with the Indians, and on the
moral character of the religious sect he founded in the colonies.

While yet a student he was expelled from Christ Church, Oxford,
because he was converted to Quakerism under the preaching of Thomas
Loe. He was imprisoned in Cork for attending a Quaker meeting, and in
the Tower of London in 1668 for writing "The Sandy Foundation Shaken,"
and while there he wrote his great work, "No Cross, No Crown." In
1671, he was again imprisoned for preaching Quakerism, and as he would
take no oath on his trial, he was thrown into Newgate, and while there
he wrote his