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Penn came to America because he made a deal with some ruling authority (I forget who, but I believe it may have been the king). Said authority didn’t tolerate Quakers like Penn, but he owed William’s father a favor, so he gave Penn a plot of land in America, where he and the other Quakers went, settling in modern-day Pennsylvania.
