Personal Narrative: I Am William Penn

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I am William Penn, known as THE QUAKER WHO FOUNDED PHILADELPHIA. My life was not that easy. I didn't have the same beliefs the king, Charles II so I got thrown in jail a lot with more than fifteen-thousands other people. But then I told him he owes money to my father, Admiral Sir William Penn. My Father died in 1670 he was only Forty-nine years old. I was twenty-six.

It is the first day of the trip. It’s very sunny and it is a good starting. Everything is going smoothly and safely. “I’m going to miss England,” William said, “but I will finish The Holy experiment.”

William is in his room asleep. Then everyone heard a “SMACK’’ they went off course, and they had to turn the boat. It took three grown men and one twelve

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