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The first permanent settlement in Pennsylvania was at Tinicum, settled by Swedes in 1643. The English conquered the territory in late 1664. On March 4, 1681, King Charles II gave William Penn a charter for what later became Pennsylvania or Penn's Woods.

King Charles II. owed Penn's father a myrad amount of money, but Penn's father died: therefore, King Charles II. had to return the money by giving Penn Pennsylvania.

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The Quakers under the leadership of William Penn.

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Sweden with the establishment of the New Sweden Colony near what is today Wilmington Deleware from which they settled parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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The Quakers wanted religious freedom.

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