Excerpt from A History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania, Vol. 2: The Quakers in the Revolution The province Of Pennsylvania, during the first three-quarters Of a century Of its existence, had made more rapid progress in numbers, wealth and internal peace and comfort than any other of the English colonies which lined the coast. At the end of this period, when our his tory begins, it contained perhaps two hundred thousand people, Of whom one-eighth were in the city of Philadelphia. This city was, in number Of inhabitants and in commerce, the chief city of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.