Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . of the people in these earlydays of the colony was very rude and simple. The communitywas purely agricultural. Shortly after the settlement Lord Balti-more sent out instructions about the granting of land,which werecalled Conditions of Plantation. The land that a man mightreceive varied according to the number of persons that he broughtover to settle in the colony. Thus, each of the first settlers whobrought over as many as five persons received two thousand acres 18 LEADING
Leading events of Maryland history; with topical analyses, references, and questions for original thought and research . of the people in these earlydays of the colony was very rude and simple. The communitywas purely agricultural. Shortly after the settlement Lord Balti-more sent out instructions about the granting of land,which werecalled Conditions of Plantation. The land that a man mightreceive varied according to the number of persons that he broughtover to settle in the colony. Thus, each of the first settlers whobrought over as many as five persons received two thousand acres 18 LEADING EVENTS OF MARYLAND HISTORY of land; if he brought fewer than five he received one hundredacres for himself and every man, one hundred for his wife andevery servant, and fifty for every child under sixteen. The landso granted was subject to a small annual rent to the proprietary,called a quit rent. Relations with the neighboring Indianswere friendly from the beginning. Father White and other goodpriests becoming missionaries to them and winning many con-verts. This fact, together with the abundance of food and the. ROSECROFT* easy conditions on which land was granted and the religious tol-eration that prevailed, caused the population to grow were usually laid out along the waters edge, and thefirst houses were rudely built of logs and boards. Travel wasalmost entirely by water. Augusta Carolina (See Sec. 14) soon became St. Marys county,which is thus the oldest in the state. As the population increased *An old colonial house, altered in part, near the site of St. Marys. It is thehome that is mentioned promimmtly in J. P. Kennedys romance, Rob of theBowl. THE SETTLEMENT OF MARYLAND 19 and the settlements began to spread the county was divided intohundreds. Hundred was a name originally applied to a dis-trict capable of supplying a hundred men for the army. In Eng-land the county divisions were called hundreds, and the namewas used in the same way in Maryland.
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