Chap. II. 



AMERICA. 



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NEW DESCRIPTION 



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SECT. III. 





EforeWe proceed to the Defcription of this Countrey, it 

 will be firft requifite to relate the true occafion and means, 

 whereby this part of America came to be erected into a Pro- 

 vince, and call'd Maryland. 



In tjie Year of our Lord 1631. George Lord Baltemore ob# 

 tain'd of King Charles the Firft,of Great $rittain,{<rc. a Grant 

 of that part of America, (firft difcover'd by the Englijh) 

 which lies between the Degrees of thirty feven and fifty 

 Minutes, or thereabouts, and forty of Northerly Latitude; which is bounded on 

 the South by Virginia 5 on the North, by New England, and New Jerfey, part of New ttefimatiaa; 

 York, lying on the Eaft fide of Delaware Bay > y on the Eaft, by the Ocean, and on 

 the Weft, by that part of the Continent which lies in the Longitude of the fitrft 

 Fountains of the River call'd Tatomeck. 



In pursuance of this Grant to his faid Lordfliip, a Bill was prepar'd, and brought 

 to His Majefty to Sign, who firft ask'd his Lordfhip, what hefliould call it, there 

 being a Blank in the Bill defignedly left for the Name, which his Lordfliip inten* 

 ded fhould have been Crefcentia . but his Lordfhip leaving it to His Majefty to give 

 it a Name, the King propos'd to have it call'd Terra»MarU y in English, Mary-land, in 

 honor of bis Queen, whofe Name was Mary-, which was concluded on, and infer* 

 ted into the Bill, which the King then Sign'd 5 and thereby the faid Traft of Land 

 was eredled into a Province by that Name. 



His Lordfliip fomewhat delaying the fpeedy pafling of it under the Great Seal 

 of England, dy'd in the interim, before the faid Patent was perfected j whereupon a 



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