Biography of William Penn

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"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."~William Penn

An underrated doctrine is exactly what America's first advocate of liberty and equality resided to. A man of great philosophy, William Penn became known as a great champion of peace. Living by a newly explored creed of living, Penn was an influential patron in both the Old World and the New World. Penn's life would be the journey that took him the distance. His early years of life were set out for him, yet his wandering often caused him to stray away from the laid out pathway. His fantastic revelations kept him antsy, and so he would not always take what he was given.

Penn would continue to mature and establish his own beliefs, and his own contradictions. Through his years of trail and his years of revolution, Penn would eventually land in the New World of America. There to once again, stir up a change.

October 14, 1644 gave birth to a hero. The seed of three William Penn's before him, William Penn the Fourth was born. Penn was born in London to an Admiral of the Royal Navy and a fun-loving mother. There were trails and tribulations for his father in Penn's early years of life, yet they were shortly overcome. The first five years of William's life captured five years of overwhelming change in England. The Civil War had come to an end and a new ruler came about with Oliver Cromwell. The time in London was short lived, for the Penn family soon moved to the country life...