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ing creeds and sects should live together in religious 
toleration. This was an undreamed-of condition until 
Sir George Calvert’s broad humanity conceived it, and 
the friendship of the King, Charles I, for him, granted 
the charter which assured it. 
That he died in the year in which this charter was 
issued made no real difference in his great plan; for 
his son Cecilius, into whose hands it was put in June, 
1632, went on as his father would have done, collect¬ 
ing immediately the nucleus of the Colony, so that by 
March of the following year, about two hundred ar¬ 
rived off Point Comfort. Leonard Calvert, brother of 
the older Cecilius, came as their Governor; and under 
him and his motto, “Peace to all—proscription of 
none,” this little group took up their lives in the aban¬ 
doned Indian huts of the ancient native village which 
they piously renamed “St. Mary’s.” Upon the charter 
given to Lord Baltimore the charter of Penn’s later 
grant was modeled, with few alterations. Hence it 
seems curious that so strong an antagonism should 
have existed between the domains of these two great 
men; but the question of boundary rights is a very 
delicate one—a question that has often strained the 
friendship of the good and excellent. 
Each Colony, being vested in a single Lord Pro¬ 
prietary rather than in a Company, as the other 
patents were, developed in a manner somewhat more 
