| Chapter I. | The Birth Of Pennsylvania |
| Chapter II. | Penn Sails For The Delaware |
| Chapter III. | Life In Philadelphia |
| Chapter IV. | Types Of The Population |
| Chapter V. | The Troubles Of Penn And His Sons |
| Chapter VI. | The French And Indian War |
| Chapter VII. | The Decline Of Quaker Government |
| Chapter VIII. | The Beginnings Of New Jersey |
| Chapter IX. | Planters And Traders Of Southern Jersey |
| Chapter X. | Scotch Covenanters And Others In East Jersey |
| Chapter XI. | The United Jerseys |
| Chapter XII. | Little Delaware |
| Chapter XIII. | The English Conquest |
In 1661, the year after Charles II was restored to the throne of England, William Penn was a seventeen-year-old student at Christ Church, Oxford. His father, a distinguished admiral in high favor at Court, had abandoned his erstwhile friends and had aided in restoring King Charlie to his own again. Young William was associating with the sons of the aristocracy and was receiving an education which would fit him to obtain preferment at Court. But there was a serious vein in him, and while at a high church Oxford College he was surreptitiously attending the meetings and listening to the preaching of the despised and outlawed Quakers. There he first began to hear of the plans of a group of Quakers to found colonies on the Delaware in America. Forty years afterwards he wrote, "I had an opening of joy as to these pa