7/19 At last, after the purchase of Delaware, the heirs of Baltimore and of Penn (1732) agreed on what is the present boundary line. After 1703 the people of the three lower counties were allowed to have an assembly or legislature of their own; but they had the same governor as Pennsylvania and were a part of that colony till the Revolution.[1] [Footnote 1: For Pennsylvania read Janney's _Life of William Penn_ or Dixon's _History of William Penn_; Proud's or Gordon's _Pennsylvania_; Lodge's _Colonies_, pp. Georgia.%--The return of the Carolinas to the King in 1729 was very soon followed by the establishment of the last colony ever planted by England in the United States. The founder was James Oglethorpe, an English soldier and member of Parliament. |