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These ships, under Minuit, landed their passengers but a few miles south of where Philadelphia now stands, and thus made the first beginning of what has since become the great and happy Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This was six years before Penn was born. Reynolds in his Introduction to Israel Acrelius's History of New Sweden, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
A handsome wooden church was also built at the same place, which Magister Campanius consecrated, on the last great prayer-day which was celebrated in New Sweden, on the 4th of September, 1646. Upon that place also all the most prominent freemen had their residences and plantations. From Acrelius's "History of New Sweden." Printed in "Old South Leaflets."
Reynolds's Introduction to Acrelius, p. 14. See Acrelius's History, pp. 64, 65, and Clay's Swedish Annals, pp. 24, 25. But still, as a man, a colonist, a governor, and a friend of the race, we owe to William Penn great honor and respect, and his arrival here is amply worthy of our grateful commemoration.
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