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Chap. II. 



The Bounds. 



Title. 



The firft 

 Seating. 



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Patent of the faid Province was fliortly afterwards pafs'd to his Son and Heir, 

 (who was Chriften'd by the Name of Can/, but afterwards confirm'd by the Name 

 of Qzcilim,) the now Lord fBaltemore, under the Great Seal oi England, bearing Date 

 June 20. 163 2. in the eighth Year of His laid Majefties Reign, with all Royal Ju. 

 rifdictions and Prerogatives, both Military and Civil in the faid Province, as Pow- 

 er to Enact Laws, Power of pardoning all manner of Offences, Power to confer 

 Honors, err. to be held of His laid Majefty, His Heirs and SuccelTors, Kings of Eng- 

 land in common Soccage, as of His Majefties Honor of Windfor in the County of 

 'Berks in England $ yielding and paying yearly for the fame to His Majefty and to His 

 Heirs and SuccefTors for ever, two Indian Arrows of thofe parts, at the Caftle of 

 Wind/or aforefaid, on Tuefday in Eajier Week, and the fifth part of all Gold and Sil- 

 ver Oar, which (hall happen to be found in the faid Province. 



" By the faid Patent is Granted to his Lordfhip, his Heirs and Affigns, al\ that 

 " part of a Termi/ida, lying in the parts of America, between the Ocean on the Eaft, 

 " and the Bay of Qyefnf each on the Weft ; and divided from the other part thereof 

 €i by a right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Cafe of Land call'd Watkinsm 

 €l Point } fituate in the aforefaid Bay, near the River of Wigcbo on the Weft, unto the 

 <c main Ocean on the Eaft, and between that bound on the South, unto that pare 

 <c ot Delaware Say on the North, which lies under the fortieth Degree of Northerly 

 u Latitude from the Equindttial , where Ne"V> England ends ; and all that Trad of 

 "Land between the bounds aforefaid, that is to fay, paffing from the aforefaid 

 a Bay call'd Delaware Bay, in a right Line by the Degree aforefaid, unto the true 

 cc Meridian of the firft Fountains of the River of fatomeck 5 and from thence ftretch- 

 u ing towards the South, unto the furtheft Bank of the faid River, and following 

 €t the Weft and South fide thereof, unto a certain place call'd Cinquack, near the 

 u Mouth of the faid River, where it falls into the Bay of Cbefapeack, and from thence 

 " by a ftreight Line unto the aforefaid Promontory, or place call'd lfatkins-Toint, 

 " which lies in thirty feven Degrees and fifty Minutes, or thereabouts, of Northern 

 "Latitude. 



By this Patent his Lordfhip and his Heirs and Affigns are Created the true and 

 abfolute Lords and Proprietaries of the faid Province, favirig the Allegiance and 

 Soveraign Dominion due to His Majefty ,HisHeirs,and Succeifors. fo that he hath 

 thereby a Severaignty Granted to him and his Heirs, dependant upon the Sovc» 

 raignty of the Crown of England. 



His Lordfhip/in the Year 1633. fent his fecond Brother Mr. Leonard Calvert, znd 

 His third Brother Mr. George Qahert, with divers other Gentlemen of Quality, and 

 Servants to the number of two hundred Perfons at leaft, to fettle a Plantation 

 there 5 who fet Sail from the Coites in the IJle of VAgbt in England , on l^oVemb. 22. 

 in the fame Year- having made fome ftay by the way, at thcBarbadoes and St. Cbri* 

 Jhvhers in America , they arriv'd at Tomt Comfort in Virginia, on Februarys* following; 

 from whence fliortly after they Sail'd up the Bay of Cbefapeack, and Tatomeck Ri- 

 ver : And having reviewed the Country, and given Names to fcveral places, they 

 pitch'd upon a Town of 4 the Indians for their firft Seat, call'd Yoacomaco, (now Saint 

 Maries) which the then Governor Mr. Leonard Calvert, freely Purchas'd of the Na- 

 tives there, for the Lord Proprietaries ufc , with Commodities brought from 

 England. 



That which facilitated the Treaty and Purchafe of the faid place from the In* 

 dians, was a refolution which thofe Indians had then before taken, to remove higher 

 into the Countrey where it was more Populous, for fear of the Sanfaueha?wcks f 

 (another, and more Warlike People of the Indians, who were their too near Neigh- 

 bors, 



