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sions, and even stirring up the Indians continually to 

 barbarities against their British neighbors and fellow- 

 colonists, it finally became necessary to take measures 

 for sending them out of New Scotland entirely, in 

 order principally to bring them from under the in- 

 fluence of Canada, (at that time still under the sceptre 

 of France), by the inhabitants of which they were in- 

 stigated to all manner of treachery. They were ac- 

 cordingly apportioned to other provinces of North 

 America ; the most of them came hither, where they 

 live together in a particular quarter of the town, the 

 most unsightly, they being in general neither well-to- 

 do nor enterprising, although they have the same ad- 

 vantages, rights, and opportunities as the other citizens. 

 A Roman Catholic church stands on one of the 

 heights outside the city ; where two other churches, 

 but half in ruins, are to be seen also. The family of 

 the Lords Baltimore, who formerly owned the whole of 

 Maryland, being of the Romish faith, there have been 

 long settled in this province a greater number of people 

 of that religion, although they had no especial rights to 

 the exclusion of others. At the time of the persecu- 

 tions which the Roman Catholics had to suffer during 

 the last century, many considerable families fled to 

 Maryland ; and therefore if genealogical registers were 

 of any use in America the greatest part of the Roman 

 Catholic families would have reason to be proud of 

 theirs, when very many others might be perplexed how 

 to give the history of their fathers and grandfathers. 

 It is supposed that the number of the Catholics, in 

 comparison with those of other beliefs, is throughout 

 the whole province as 3 to I. The Jesuits at one time 

 owned many fine estates in this province, and although 



