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In search of economic opportunities and a more tolerant environment in which to build communities of “holy conversation,” some Friends immigrated to the Northeastern region of the United States in the early 1680s.
While in some areas like New England they continued to experience persecution, they were able to establish thriving communities in the Delaware Valley. The only two colonies that tolerated Quakers in this time period were Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, where Quakers established themselves politically. In Rhode Island, 36 governors in the first 100 years were Quakers. Pennsylvania was established by affluent Quaker William Penn in 1682 as an American state run under Quaker principles. William Penn signed a peace treaty with Tammany, leader of the Delaware tribe, and other treaties between Quakers and native Americans followed. Penn's Treaty was never violated.