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Gulielma Maria Posthuma Penn (née Springett; February 1644 – 23 February 1694) was the first wife of William Penn, the notable Quaker writer, religious thinker and founder of Pennsylvania. Early life
After Penn became ill in 1712, his second wife Hannah Callowhill Penn served as acting proprietor. After William's death in 1718, interest in the proprietorship passed to his three sons by Hannah: John Penn "the American" , Thomas Penn , and Richard Penn, Sr. , with John inheriting the largest share and becoming the chief proprietor.
The World of William Penn (1986), essays by scholars; Endy, Melvin B. Jr. William Penn and Early Quakerism (1973) Geiter, Mary K. William Penn (2000) Moretta, John. William Penn and the Quaker Legacy (2006) Morgan, Edmund S. "The World and William Penn", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1983) 127#5 pp. 291–315 JSTOR 986499.
William A. Stone, 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania—Wellsboro; Edwin Sydney Stuart, 24th Governor of Pennsylvania—Philadelphia; Lawrence Summers, Director of National Economic Council under Barack Obama—Penn Valley; Gregory Tony (born 1978), Sheriff of Broward County, Florida-Philadelphia [8]
Penn was born on 14 March 1681, the sixth child of Penn and his first wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, in County Cork, Ireland. At Bristol, on 12 January 1699, he married Mary Jones (1677–1733), the daughter of Charles and Martha (Wathen) Jones. His father was present at the wedding. The couple had three children.
Hannah Margaret Penn (née Callowhill; 11 February 1671 – 20 December 1726) was an Anglo-American governor. The second wife of Pennsylvania founder William Penn, she effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years after her husband suffered a series of strokes, and then for another eight years after her husband's death.
Samuel Carpenter (1649–1714), first Pennsylvania Treasurer and deputy governor to William Penn; Octavius Valentine Catto (1839–1871), educator, civil rights activist, and baseball player; Emilie Davis (1839–1889), writer who kept American Civil War diary; Emma V. Day (1853–1895), missionary to Liberia
The Canterbury, or Canterbury Merchant, is the ship that transported Quaker Leader William Penn and his pregnant wife Hannah Callowhill. Also, Penn’s twenty-one-year-old daughter, Letitia from a previous marriage. This was Penn’s second visit to his Pennsylvania Colony. Penn’s secretary, James Logan was also accompanying them on the ...