William Penn Home 
(1644-1718)
from William
Penn,Visionary Proprietor
Penn's Letters
- Letter to Wife and
Children
Penn left the letter of love to his wife Gliema and children when he voyaged to Pennsylvania to establish the commonwealth of freedom in 1682. "The ethic of the Quakers (as it is displayed in William Penn's letters to his wife) well achieved a genuinely humane interpretation of the inner and religious values of marriage" (Max Weber, The Rejection and Meaning of the World).
- Advice to Children
Penn left this advice to his children when he again went to Pennsylvania in 1699. It is more than the Proverbs and the Ecclesiastes. Penn shows the Christian principle of life quoting the Bible and guides to a methodical conduct of life as a pure Christian. It is an enduring product of Spiritual Puritanism. (105 K)
- Letters to Margaret Fell on his
travel to America (1682) and on
his return, and to Stephen
Crisp
Penn's Writings
- Penn's
Constitutions
Penn as the governor of Pennsylvania created a landmark constitution, The Charter of Privileges (1701). His "Holy Experiment" is a foundation of Human Rights and Modern Constitution, which declares the freedom of conscience and belief and restricts the authority of secular ruler.
- Penn's Testimony of George Fox
- Fruits of Solitude (160k)
- True Spiritual Liberty
- A Key
- Account
of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians
Related Sites for Quaker Christianity
- William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace (Jim Powell)
- The Quaker Writings Home Page
- Autobiography of George Fox
- Women's Speaking and the Bible by Margaret Fell
- Whittier, A Quaker Poet
- A
Life of the Quaker