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Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn by Charles II. This seems very different from the other 13 colonies. Did the King envision this as a sort of personal fief for the Penn family, similar to European Nobility? Or as something else entirely?

by /u/MercurianAspirations in /r/AskHistorians

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