. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. 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 an
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. 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. MAP OF MARYIjAXD, FROM ONE PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1670 AND 1690. 46 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. altar, private conferences with any desiring clearer knowledgeof the faith ; all these were the ordinary work ; but the In-dian tribes were to be reached. The Yaocomocos neai* hunted and fished for the colonists and were constantlyin the little town. The missionaries began to study theirlanguage, collecting words and endeavoring to understand itsstructure and forms. They found, however, that each littletribe seemed to have a different dialect or a distinct language ;but undeterred by this, they went steadily on, and the resultsof their investigations are still preserved. Another priest, with a lay brother, came to share theirlabors before the close of the year 1635 ; and the next yearfour priests were reported as the number assigned to theMaryland mission. Of their early labors n-o record is pre-served, and we learn only that they were laboring diligently toovercome the difiiculties pre
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