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  1. 1644-1718. English Quaker, born in London. He
  2. joined the Quakers 1667, and in 1681 obtained
  3. a grant of land in America (in settlement of
  4. a debt owed by the king to his father) on
  5. which he established the colony of
  6. Pennsylvania as a refuge for the persecuted
  7. Quakers.
  8.