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The land paid off a debt the crown owed to Penn's father.

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The king owed him money.

To allow Quakers to escape persecution in England.

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William Penn was the founder of Pennsylvania. He "envisioned a Quaker sanctuary."

Source: Divine, Robert A. America, past and Present. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. Print.

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William Penn was given the colonies to repay a large debt the King owed to his father Admiral Penn.

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the kind of england owed him money

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