<P> William Penn , the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania , who had a Dutch mother , visited the Netherlands in 1671 and saw , firsthand , the persecution of the Emden Quakers . He returned in 1677 with George Fox and Robert Barclay and at Walta Castle , their religious community at Wieuwerd in Friesland , he unsuccessfully tried to convert the similarly - minded Labadists to Quakerism . They also journeyed on the Rhine to Frankfurt , accompanied by the Amsterdam Quaker Jan Claus who translated for them . His brother , Jacob Claus , had Quaker books translated and published in Dutch and he also produced a map of Philadelphia , the capital of Penn 's Holy Experiment . </P>
<P> William Penn , the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania , who had a Dutch mother , visited the Netherlands in 1671 and saw , firsthand , the persecution of the Emden Quakers . He returned in 1677 with George Fox and Robert Barclay and at Walta Castle , their religious community at Wieuwerd in Friesland , he unsuccessfully tried to convert the similarly - minded Labadists to Quakerism . They also journeyed on the Rhine to Frankfurt , accompanied by the Amsterdam Quaker Jan Claus who translated for them . His brother , Jacob Claus , had Quaker books translated and published in Dutch and he also produced a map of Philadelphia , the capital of Penn 's Holy Experiment . </P>
who started a colony based on quaker beliefs
who started a colony based on quaker beliefs
William Penn
William Penn