Our capital town is advanced to about 150 very tolerable [satisfactory] houses for wooden ones; they are chiefly on both the navigable rivers that bound the ends or sides of the town. the farmers have got their winter corn in the ground. i suppose we may be 500 farmers strong. i settle them in villages, dividing 5,000 acres among ten, fifteen, or twenty families, as their ability is to plant it. . ”

this passage from a letter william penn wrote in 1683 describes his colony as

a.

growing and orderly

b.

struggling and desperate

c.

threatened and disorganized

d.

unstable with failing farms

The correct answer is A) growing and orderly.

This passage from a letter William Penn wrote in 1683 describes his colony as growing and orderly.

William Penn was the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania when English king Charles II gave William a charter. The king owned approximately 16,000 pounds to the family of Penn and he came to terms with him with the charter to establish a colony in the North American territory. In that letter, Penn was describing the orderly growth of the newly formed colony when he said: "Our capital town is advanced to about 150 very tolerable [satisfactory] houses for wooden ones; they are chiefly on both the navigable rivers that bound the ends or sides of the town. The farmers have got their winter corn in the ground. I suppose we may be 500 farmers strong. I settle them in villages, dividing 5,000 acres among ten, fifteen, or twenty families, as their ability is to plant it..."