Springett Penn (25 January 1675 – 10 April 1696) was the second son of
William Penn
William Penn ( – ) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quakers, Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonization of the Americas, British colonial era. An advocate of democracy and religi ...
, founder of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, and his first wife
Gulielma Maria Springett Penn, and the first of their children to survive infancy.
1675 births
1696 deaths
English Quakers
Springett
English people of Welsh descent
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