Note 1 — 1681, April 2.

The charter of Pennsylvania, March 4, 1681, is printed in the Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1879, where a fac-simile of the original document is also reproduced. In the Public Record Office is a draft of the charter, dated February 28, 1681, and signed by the clerk of the Chapel of the Rolls (Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1681-1685, p. 14; see also Acts of Privy Council, ii, 17). For the founding of Pennsylvania, see Shepherd's History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania.