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tice, especially such as dairying, truck raising, and fruit growing, 

 market cities being conveniently near. These lines of transportation 

 were by way of the valleys of Gwynns Falls, the North Branch of 

 the Patapsco, and Little Pipe Creek on the one hand, and more 

 directly to the north by Jones Palls and upper Gunpowder river 

 valleys on the other. 



NATIONALITIES. 



The policy of the Lords Baltimore which allowed freedom of con- 

 science to all who came into the Colony, was a favorable element in 

 the development of a varied population of the several important 

 groups then active. The Church of England and the Roman Cath- 

 olic Church which were both represented among the first settlers at 

 St. Mary's City, continued to share the rights and privileges of the 

 Colony for a long period. From Delaware there came Sweedish 

 settlers in 1661-1662 who had found the conditions there unfavor- 

 able for them. Puritans settled in the region about the Severn 

 river, and Anne Arundel County was erected in 1650 in recognition 

 of their influence in the affairs of the Colony. Quakers came over 

 the line from Pennsylvania, especially along the Susquehanna River, 

 and the Germans who came to occupy the central valleys of the 

 colonial area in 1735, brought with them their Lutheran principles 

 and German methods.* 



The diversity among the settlers who thus became established in 

 the Maryland Colony made it different from those in which less 

 toleration was allowed, and helped to pave the way for the prom- 

 inent place that the Colony was later to take in the preparation for 

 Independence and Union among the colonies. The broad and gen- 

 erous attitude of the colonial authorities toward those who might 

 differ somewhat from themselves in certain details of their manner 

 of life, resulted in the settlement in the Colony of groups of people 

 having diverse experiences, and histories. The benefit of this was 

 reflected in the varied kinds of farming that came to exist in the 

 Colony, and the important place it took in the maintenance of the 



*See First Settlements of Germans in Maryland, E. T. Schultz. Frederick, 

 Md., 1896. 



