A Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania in America to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that Province Residing in London

1683. This letter contains a general description of the said Province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artificial, and the good increase thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, way of living, physic, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government and their order in council upon treaties for land, etc., and their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch, etc. and the present condition and settlement of the said province and courts of justice, etc., to which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out, its situation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a platform thereof. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.