52 2 Charles I. Naval Expeditious, &c. of the Englisli, Book Iss

- his Stead, with whom he joined in Com- l 6zi-

The first Settlement of a Colony atMaryland.

The Province now called Maryland

British Emp. waS a ] vva y S reckoned a Part of Virginia,ut America, \ T , , , c ‘. r -

Vol.Lp.r83. till this Year, 1631. when the King

Hist. o/v ir- made a Grant of it, to George Calvert,

?™ a ’ P' 47 - Lord Baltimore. This Lord not living

of Mar ™***to f ee Grant made out, his Son Ce-

land. cil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, in the

Kingdom of Ireland, (who had been

at Virginia, but being looked upon

there with an evil Eye, had visited the

adjacent Countries, and resolved to fix

a new Plantation of his own) took it

out in his own Name, and it bears Date

the twentieth of June, 1632. The

Bounds of this Country cannot be better

D , j''. ascertained than by using the Words ofw, of,,. the p ^ ent .. It ^ Part of a

t( Peninsula, lying between the Oceantf on the East, and the Bay of Cheje-" peak on the West, and divided from" the other Part by a Right Linedrawn from the Cape called Watkin ’s" Point (situate in the aforesaid Bay," near the River of fVtghco') on the" West, unto the main Ocean on the" East, and between that Bound onthe South, unto that Part of Dela~" ware Bay on the.North, which lies“ under the fortieth Degree of Nor-te them Latitude, &c. And all that" Tract: of Land from the aforesaid,tc Bay of Delaware, in a right Line, by" the Degree aforesaid, to the true Me-" ridian of the firstFountain of the RiverPatowmeck, and from thence tendingts towards the South, to the farther" Bank of the aforesaid River, and" following the West and South-Sidetc of it to a certain Place called Cin-“ quack, situate near the Mouth of thesaid River, where it falls into the" Bay of Chefiepeak, and from thence," by a streight Line, to the aforesaid" Cape, called Watkin’s Point.

Whence it Th e King himself gave this Provincetoot its the Name of Maryland, in Honour toEame. his Queen. The Lord Baltimore heldit of the Crown of England, in com-mon Soccage, as of His Majesty’s Ma-nour of Windsor, holding and payingyearly, for ever, two Indian Arrows ofthose Parts, at the Castle of Windj'or.

The first The Lord Baltimore having obtain-Coionyfent ed this Grant, resolved to go thither inover. Person; But afterwards changing hisMind, he appointed his Brother Leo-nard Calvert , Esq; to go Governour, in

mission Jeremy Hawley, Esq; and Eho-mas Cornwallis, Esq; The first Colonywas sent thither, in 1633, and consist-ed of about two Hundred People. TheChief of the Adventurers were Gentle- '

men of good Families, but Roman Ca-tholicks, who went thither in Hopes ofenjoying a Liberty of Conscience, un-der a Proprietary of their own Profes-sion, as was the Lord Baltimore. Their De-

Th es e Adventurers sailed BomCows, P arture -in the I fie of Wight, the twenty-secondof November , and having stopped atBarbadoes, and St. Christopher’5, wherethey staid some Time, arrived at PointComfort, in Virginia , the four and And AWtwentieth of February following. The val there ‘third of March, they left Point Com-fort, and came to Patowmeck- River,the South Point of which the Gover-nour called St. Gregory’s, and the NorthPoint, St. Michael’s.

After having viewed the River, Theftsnear fifty Leagues up it, in Pinnaces, Settlers# 11 *'and conferred with several of the Indi-an Chiefs the Governour returned andviewed/a River on the North-side ofPatowmeck, within four or five Leaguesof its Mouth, which he called George’sRiver, and, about four Leagues up it,came to an Indian Town called Toama-co, where he resolved to make his firstSettlement, which the Indian Inhabi-tants not only consented to, but wil-lingly abandoned it, allowing the Go- St.vernour to take Possession of it, the se- hut It-ven and twentieth of March, who gaveit the Name of St. Mary’s>

The taking Possession of this Townwas a great Advantage to the first Co-lony',' because the Ground round aboutwas cleared to their Hands, which gavethem an easy Opportunity of PlantingCorn, and making Gardens. They foundindeed, only Huts in it; But they soonconverted them intoHouses, and erecteda Fort: And, the Colony encreasing,the Country was afterwards divided in-to Shires, and several Towns built.

The Author of the History of Vir-ginia calls this Settlement an unhappyAccident, and alledges several Reasonswherein it caused Prejudice to Virginia,from which it was separated ; But thisregarding Trade only, I shall leave it tobe discussed by abler Judges.

Captain James’i Voyage of Discovery.

In the Year 1631, the Company of

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