like to grow
wealthy from what his trading brought.

Looking upon the future and contemplating barter on a princely scale,
he set to work and obtained exhaustive licenses from the immediate
Virginian authorities, and at last from the King himself. Under these
grants, Claiborne began to provide settlements for his numerous traders.
Far up the Chesapeake, a hundred miles or so from Point Comfort, he
found an island that he liked, and named it Kent Island. Here for his
men he built cabins with gardens around them, a mill and a church.
He was far from the river James and the mass of his fellows, but he
esteemed himself to be in Virginia and upon his own land. What came of
Claiborne's enterprise the sequel has to show.

CHAPTER IX. MARYLAND

There now enters upon the scene in Virginia a man of middle age, not
without experience in planting colonies, by name George Calvert, first
Lord Baltimore. Of Flemish ancestry, born in Yorkshire, scholar at
Oxford, traveler, clerk of the Privy Council, a Secretary of State under
James, member of the House of Commons, member of the Virginia Company,
he knew many of the ramifications of life. A man of worth and weight, he
was placed by temperament and education upon the side of the court party
and the Crown in the growing contest over rights. About the year 1625,
under what influence is not known, he had openly professed the Roman
Catholic faith--and that took courage in the seventeenth century, in
England!

Some years before, Calvert had obtained from the Crown a grant of a part
of Newfoundland, had named it Avalon, and had built great hopes upon its
settlement. But the northern winter had worked against him. He knew, for
he had resided there himself with his family in that harsh clime. "From
the middle of October to the middle of May there is a sad fare of winter
on all this land." He is writing to King Charles, and he goes on to
say "I have had strong temptations to leave all proceedings in
plantations... but my inclination carrying me naturally to these kind of
works... I am determined to commit this place to fishermen that are able
to encounter storms and hard weather, and to remove myself with some
forty persons to your Majesty's dominion of Virginia where, if your
Majesty will please to grant me a precinct of land... I shall endeavour
to the utmost of my power, to deserve it."

With his immediate following he thereupon does sail far southward. In
October, 1629, he comes in