Frontier Country. Patrick Spero

all of these legal entanglements and bloody assaults, Penn realized that he needed a new strategy if he was going to secure victory. He had to maintain the allegiance of Pennsylvanians already in the region, win new converts, and actively assert his claim to the land, all of which meant that to combat Maryland, he would have to appeal to the needs of settlers. He thus began to learn the political art of colonial competition in which colonists’ choice mattered more than proprietary dictate.