SOME PROPOSALS For a Second Settlement in the Province of Pennsylvania.  
WHereas I did about nine Years past, propound the selling of several Parts, or Shares of Land, upon that side of the Province of Pennsylvania, next Delaware-River, and setting out of a Place upon it for the building of a City, by the name of Philadelphia; and that divers Persons closed with those Proposals, who, by their ingenuity, industry and charge, have advanced that City, from a Wood, to a good forwardness of Building (there being above One Thousand Houses finished in it) and that the several Plantations and Towns begun upon the Land, bought by those first Undertakers, are also in a prosperous way of Improvement and Enlargement (insomuch as last Year, ten Sail of Ships were freighted there, with the growth of the Province, for Barbados, Jamaica, etc. Besides what came directly for this Kingdom) It is now my purpose to make another Settlement, upon the River of Susquehannagh, that runs into the Bay of Chesapeake, and bears about fifty Miles West from the River Delaware, as appears by the Common Maps of the English Dominion in America. There I design to lay out a Plate for the building of another City, in the most convenient place for communication with the former Plantations on the East: which by Land, is as good as done already, a Way being laid out between the two Rivers very exactly and conveniently, at least three years ago; and which will not be hard to do by Water, by the benefit of the River Scoalkill; for a Branch of that River lies near a Branch that runs into Susquehannagh River, and is the Common Course of the Indians with their Skins and Furs into our parts, and to the Provinces of East and West-Jersy, and New-York, from the West and North-West parts of the Continent from whence they bring them.  
And I do also intend that every one who shall be a Purchasser in this proposed Settlement, shall have a proportionable Lot in the said City to build a House or Houses upon; which Town-Ground, and the Shares of Land that shall be bought of me, shall be delivered clear of all Indian pretensions; for it has been my way from the first, to purchase their Title from them, and so settle with their consent.  
The Shares I dispose of, contain each, Three Thousand Acres, for 100 l. and for greater or lesser quantities, after that rate. The Acre of that Province is according to the Statute of the 33th of Edw. 1. And no Acknowledgement or Quitrent shall be paid by the Purchasers till five years after a Settlement be made upon their Lands, and that only according to the quantity of Acres so taken up and seated, and not otherwise; and only then to pay but one shilling per annum for every hundred Acres forever. And further, I do promise to agree with every Purchasser that shall be willing to treat with me between this and next Spring, upon all such reasonable conditions, as shall be thought necessary for their accommodation, intending, if God please, to return with what speed I can, and my Family with me, in order to our future residence.  
To conclude, that which particularly recommends this Settlement, is the known Goodness of the Soil, and Situation of the Land, which is high & not Mountainous; also the Pleasantness, and Largeness of the River, being clear and not rapid, and broader than the Thames at London-bridge, many Miles above the place designed for this Settlement; and runs (as we are told by the Indians) quite through the Province, into which many fair Rivers empty themselves. The sorts of Timber that grow there, are chiefly Oak, Ash, Chesnut, Walnut, Cedar, and Poplar. The native Fruits are Pawpaws, Grapes, Mulberies, Chestnuts, and several sorts of Walnuts. There are likewise great quantities of Deer, and especially Elks, which are much bigger than our Red Deer, and use that River in Herds. And Fish there is of divers sorts, and very large and good, and in great plenty.  
But that which recommends both this Settlement in particular, and the Province in general, is a late Patent obtained by divers Eminent Lords and Gentlemen for that Land that lies North of Pennsylvania up to the 46th Degree and an half, because their Traffic and Intercourse will be chiefly through Pennsylvania, which lies between that Province and the Sea. We have also the comfort of being the Centre of all the English Colonies upon the Continent of America, as they lie from the North-East parts of New-England to the most Southerly parts of Carolina, being above 1000 Miles upon the Coast.  
If any Persons please to apply themselves to me by Letters in relation to this affair, they may direct them to Robert Ness Scrivener in Lumberstreet in London for Philip Ford, and suitable answers will be returned by the first opportunity. There are also Instructions printed for information of such as intend to go, or send Servants, or Families thither, which way they may proceed with most Ease and Advantage, both here and there, in reference to Passage, Goods, utensels, Building, Husbandry, Stock, Subsistance, Traffic, etc. being the effect of their Expense and Experiance that have seen the fruit of their Labours.  
William Penn.   

Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle▪ at the Crooked Billet in Holloway Lane, Shoreditch, 1690.