. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. Protestant dwelling togetherin harmony, neither attempting to interfere with the religiousrights of the other, and religious liberty obtained a home,its only home in the wide world, at the humble village whichbore the name of St. Marys. Foley, Records of the English Province, iii., p. 322. RelatioItineris, p. 36. A Relation of Maryland, 1635, p. 12. ?^ Bancroft, History of the United States, i., p. 247. 44 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. Tim
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. Protestant dwelling togetherin harmony, neither attempting to interfere with the religiousrights of the other, and religious liberty obtained a home,its only home in the wide world, at the humble village whichbore the name of St. Marys. Foley, Records of the English Province, iii., p. 322. RelatioItineris, p. 36. A Relation of Maryland, 1635, p. 12. ?^ Bancroft, History of the United States, i., p. 247. 44 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. Tims began the city of St. Marys, March 27, 1634. St. Marys was the home, the chosen home of the disciplesof the Roman Church. The fact has been generally is sustained by the traditions of two hundred years, and byvolumes of written testimony ; by the records of the courts ;by the proceedings of the privy council; by the trial of lawcases; by the wills and inventories ; by the land records andrent-rolls, and by the very names originally given to the to^vnsand hundreds to the creeks and rivulets, to the tracts andmanors of the county. .<^. SrrE OF TITE CITT OF ST. MARYS, MD., WHERE THE FIRST CATHOLICCHAPEL WAS ERECTED. FROM A SKETCH BY GEORGE ALFREDTOWN8END. The settlers were soon at work. Houses for their use wereerected, crops were planted, activity and industry Marys chapel was dedicated to the worship of AlmightyGod, and near it a fort stood, ready to protect the required by the fact that Clayborne, the fanaticalenemy of Lord Baltimore and his Catholic projects, who hadalready settled on Kent Island, was exciting the Indiansagainst the colonists of Maryland. The little community gave the priests a field too limitedfor their zeal. The daily mass, the instructions from the Davis, Day Star, p. 149.
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