Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . w Governor Calvert says, 50 GEORGE AND CECILIUS CALVERT My wife your Sister earnestly entreats you that greatCare may be taken of a great trunck which stands in herChamber betwixt the bedd and the Chimney there beingin it severall bottles of Cordiall AVaters and Likewise somefient glasses. These letters help us to remember that the early settlerswere men and women and children like ourselves. Theywere real live people. The men and boys worked in thefields planting and harvesting corn. In the forests theycut wood for their fires and shot game
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . w Governor Calvert says, 50 GEORGE AND CECILIUS CALVERT My wife your Sister earnestly entreats you that greatCare may be taken of a great trunck which stands in herChamber betwixt the bedd and the Chimney there beingin it severall bottles of Cordiall AVaters and Likewise somefient glasses. These letters help us to remember that the early settlerswere men and women and children like ourselves. Theywere real live people. The men and boys worked in thefields planting and harvesting corn. In the forests theycut wood for their fires and shot game for their women cooked and sewed and milked the cows thatthe boys drove in from the pasture. As the years passed by not only did new settlers comefrom England, but little children, who never had seenEngland, were born in the colony. They grew up to bemen and women, married, and had children of their little make-believe Dick and Betty of our first storywould have been more than fifty years old at the timewhen Cecilius Calvert 51 IV WILLIAM CLAIBORNE, LORD BALTIMORES ENEMY YOU must not think that William Claiborne was theonly enemy Cecilius Calvert had. There weremany others. But Claiborne probably gave LordBaltimore more trouble than any other man he met withduring his whole life. It was not through any fault of Lord Baltimore, for weshall see that he tried to live at peace with this man andto be on friendly terms with him. We promised, in thestory before this, to tell of the enemies who preventedLord Baltimore from coming to Maryland. Claibornewas the chief of these, and we shall now see what he did. The whole trouble arose over Kent Island, a largeisland that lies about halfway up Chesapeake Bay andopposite Annapolis. On this island, a year or two beforethe settlers landed at St. Marys, Claiborne had estab-lished a trading post. It was not really a settlement. It was only a stationwhere a few Englishmen lived and kept a stock of goodswith which to buy
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