How was the state of Pennsylvania territorialized?

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1. Harry
   

    Sometime later in the seventieth century, the domain called Pennsylvania colonized. It was mainly by a sect called Quakers in derision that appeared in England at about the time when Roger Williams was there to procure a charter for Rhode Island. Their founder and preachers were among the boldest and yet the meekest of the non-conformists. Their morality was so strict that the world called them ascetics-persons who devote their lives to religion only. They carried this strictness into all departments of life and personal habits. George Fox, a shoemaker of Leicestershire, England, was the founder of this sect. Among the multitude of converts to the moral and religious doctrines of George Fox was young William Penn. Penn proposed to call the domain "New Wales," in honor of the land of his ancestors, but the Welch secretary of state objected. Then he suggested "Sylvania" as appropriate for such a woody country. The secretary who drew up the charter prefixed the name of Penn to Sylvania, in the document. Penn journeyed through New Jersey to New York and Long Island, visiting Friends and preaching with fervor. Then he returned to the Delaware, and on the seventh of November he went to Uplands (now Chester), where he met the first Provincial Assembly of his province. There he made known his benevolent designs toward all men, civilized and Indian, and excited the love and reverence of his hearers. He informed the Assembly of the union of the "territories" (as Delaware was called) with his province, and received their congratulations, as he laid the foundations of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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2. Guest3591721
   

   some info about territorial days in pennsylvania

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