Elementary history of the United States . ietta Maria, the Queen of England. 2. Lord Baltimore died before he could j)lant his colo-ny ; but his son, Cecil Calvert, succeeded to the 1634, he sent over from England two hundred emi-grants. They sailed up the Potomac Eiver, which sepa-rates Maryland from Virginia, bought some land from thenatives, and built a little village. They gave the Indiansknives, hoes, and axes; and the Indian women in returntaught them how to make corn-bread and johnny-cake. 3. The settlers of Maryland did not suffer, like thosewho founded the other colonies. The
Elementary history of the United States . ietta Maria, the Queen of England. 2. Lord Baltimore died before he could j)lant his colo-ny ; but his son, Cecil Calvert, succeeded to the 1634, he sent over from England two hundred emi-grants. They sailed up the Potomac Eiver, which sepa-rates Maryland from Virginia, bought some land from thenatives, and built a little village. They gave the Indiansknives, hoes, and axes; and the Indian women in returntaught them how to make corn-bread and johnny-cake. 3. The settlers of Maryland did not suffer, like thosewho founded the other colonies. They arrived at a favor-able season, and were helped by the people of were free and happy, and numbers joined themfrom England. Their only trouble was caused by a mannamed Claybome, who, before their arrival, had estab-lished a trading-post within their boundaries. He stirred 52 DELA WARE. [1634 up several rebellions, but was at last put down. Balti-more, the largest city in Maryland, was named after thefounder of this Makyland and New Sweden. 4. Delaware.— Delaware was nextfounded, in 1638,by a company ofSwedes and Swedes are theinhabitants of Swed-en, and the Finns ofFinland,—two coun-tries in the north of Europe. Though these nations hadmade no discoveries in the new world, they wanted tohave a colony there, and fitted out a party of on the shore of Delaware Bay, the Swedesbought a tract from the Indians, and gave it the nameof New Sweden. They erected several forts, and weresoon joined by more of their countrymen. 6. Several years before the Swedes arrived, a party ofDutch from New Netherland had settled in this had been cut off by the Indians; yet now, whenthe Dutch saw strangers taking possession, they claimedthe coimtry on the ground that they had been the first tooccupy it. A quarrel thus arose, which resulted (in 1655) 1638] CONQUEST OF NEW NETHERLAND. 53 in the conquest of New Sweden bj the Dutch. The nam
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