What to see in America . Scale of Miles. Great Falls of the Potomac near Washington XII Maryland The first settlement in Maryland was a trading post estab-lished on Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay in 1631. Threeyears later a colony started the town of St. Marys on a bluffoverlooking the broad river of the same name not far fromwhere this stream joins the Potomac, near the latters settlers were twenty gentlemen adventurers andabout three hundred laborers who came from England in alittle ship, the Arl, and her attendant pinnace, the Indian village on the bluff was bought with iro
What to see in America . Scale of Miles. Great Falls of the Potomac near Washington XII Maryland The first settlement in Maryland was a trading post estab-lished on Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay in 1631. Threeyears later a colony started the town of St. Marys on a bluffoverlooking the broad river of the same name not far fromwhere this stream joins the Potomac, near the latters settlers were twenty gentlemen adventurers andabout three hundred laborers who came from England in alittle ship, the Arl, and her attendant pinnace, the Indian village on the bluff was bought with iron hatchetsand hoes and pieces of cloth. Scarcely a trace of the oldsettlement now remains. Lord Baltimore, to whom Charles I granted the regionvaguely described as north of Virginia, was required topay the king two Indian arrows yearly in token of homage,and a fifth part of whatever gold or silver might be as no precious metals were produced in the colonythis rental amounted to nothing. The king named thecolony Maryland in hon
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