Springett Penn (25 January 1675 – 10 April 1696) was the second son of
William Penn
William Penn ( – ) was an English writer and religious thinker belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, a North American colony of England. He was an early advocate of democracy a ...
, founder of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
, and his first wife
Gulielma Maria Springett Penn, and the first of their children to survive infancy.
1674 births
1696 deaths
English Quakers
Springett
English people of Welsh descent
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