ation of the province
was established there. Annapolis has, ever since, continued to be the
capital of Maryland, while St. Mary's, dependent for its existence upon
its being the capital of the province, speedily sunk into ruins.

Lord Baltimore never recovered his proprietary rights. Neither did he
return to America, but died in England in the year 1714, at the age of
eighty-five years. He was succeeded by his son Benedict Leonard Calvert.
That son had abandoned the faith of his father and, in the spring of
1715, died, when his title to the province devolved upon his infant son
Charles, who, with his brothers and sisters, had been educated as
Protestants. Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore and William Penn were
contemporaries, and were equally conspicuous for their beneficent
disposition. They are regarded as the best of all the proprietors, who
owned charted domains in America.

Rufus Stevens, an uncle of Charles Stevens, the youth of Salem, was
living in New Jersey, when Lord Berkeley, disgusted by the losses and
annoyances which the ownership of the colony brought upon him, sold his
interests in the province to John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge, English
Friends, or Quakers, for the sum of five thousand dollars. The tract
thus disposed of was in the western part of the province. With some
emigrants, mostly of the society of Friends, Fenwick sailed for his new
possessions. They entered at a spot not far from the Delaware River,
which they named Salem, on account of the peaceful aspect of the country
and the surrounding Indians. There, with the peculiar gravity of the
sect, Fenwick and his two daughters, thirteen men (most of them heads of
families) and one woman, the wife of one of the emigrants, sat in silent
worship, according to their custom, under the shadow of a great tree,
with covered heads and quiet bodies, on the ensuing "First Day" after
their arrival. Then they built log cabins for shelter, and so began a
new life in the wilds of New Jersey.

The principal proprietor was Byllinge; but soon after the departure of
Fenwick, heavy losses in trade made him a bankrupt, and his interest in
New Jersey was first assigned to William Penn and others for the benefit
of his creditors, and was afterward sold to them. These purchasers and
others who became associated with them, unwilling to maintain a
political union with other parties, bargained with Carteret for a
division of the province. This was done in July, 1676, Cart