tlers about a year after their
arrival. George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, founder of Maryland,
had sent a group of colonists to Newfoundland in 1621, but the
venture being unsuccessful he secured a new grant north of the
Potomac, to which, at the request of Charles I, he gave the name of
Maryland, in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria. Calvert, after a visit
to Virginia, returned to England and there died before his charter
was actually issued. In consequence the grant was made out to
Calvert's son, Cecil. Cecil Calvert at once organized a company of
more than two hundred men, who effected a permanent settlement at
St. Mary's, which for sixty years was the capital of the colony of
Maryland, Annapolis being afterward chosen. Baltimore was not
founded until 1729.

The account here given was published in London in 1634, and is the
first extant description of the province. It has been conjectured
that Cecil Calvert prepared it from letters written by his
brothers, Leonard and George. The account is believed to preserve
the exact language of the original writers of the letters. Printed
in "Old South Leaflets."

[2] Now called the Susquehanna.

[3] The Susquehanna Indians.

ROGER WILLIAMS IN RHODE ISLAND

(1636)

BY NATHANIEL MORTON[1]

In the year 1634 Mr. Roger Williams removed from Plymouth to Salem: he
had lived about three years at Plymouth, where he was well accepted as
an assistant in the ministry to Mr. Ralph Smith, then pastor of the
church there, but by degrees venting of divers of his own singular
opinions, and seeking to impose them upon others, he not finding such
a concurrence as he expected, he desired his dismission to the Church
of Salem, which though some were unwilling to, yet through the prudent
counsel of Mr. Brewster (the ruling elder there) fearing that his
continuance amongst them might cause division, and [thinking that]
there being then many able men in the Bay, they would better deal with
him then [than] themselves could ... the Church of Plymouth consented
to his dismission, and such as did adhere to him were also dismissed,
and removed with him, or not long after him, to Salem....

But he having in one year's time filled that place with principles of
rigid separation, and tending to Anabaptistry, the prudent Magistrates
of the Massachusetts Jurisdiction, sent to the Church of Salem,
desiring them to