Posted on 01/25/2018 4:08:43 PM PST by SMGFan
Of course I do. . . William Penn, the guy on the Quaker Oats tube box.
The state is not called Pennwilliam. It is called Pennsylvania.
Keep trying.
Although Swedes and Dutch were the first European settlers, William Penn, a Quaker, named Pennsylvania in honor of his father by combining the name Penn and the Latin term sylvania, which translates as “woodlands,” to come up with “Penn’s woodlands.”
Yep!
Excuse me. Sylvan means a green forested area. William Penn, son of Sir William Penn, was a Real Estate entrepreneur who was granted the land in the New World and founded the Colony of Pennsylvania. . . which HE named after himself and then promoted as a beautiful SYLVAN, i.e. wooded land with rolling and mountainous land, ripe for colonization to other Quakers and other religious minorities in England. It was later to become the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
What do YOU think Pennsylvania was named for?
So it was named for the guy on the Quaker Oat’s box’s father who has the same name. . . by the King of England no less, and that William Penn, the SON, did not like it, no less.
I was taught in school SIXTY YEARS ago the other story. Guess they had it wrong back then. Thanks for making me look it up. I appreciate learning something new. Keeps me young.
It’s sometimes amazing how much of history we learned is actually myth.
Still, it was the same name. LOL!
I was taught when William Penn heard of the plan to name the state after him he modestly declined. Instead, he said name it after my wife, Slyvania. So instead of the state being called Pennwilliam, it was named Pennsylvania. Talk about myth.
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