Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . «.^^o»a^^^^^^^^!^ INDIAN BOY LEARNING TO SHOOT INDIAN MASSACRES to be allowed to enter the fort. The commandant pre-tended to believe them and opened the gates. But as soonas Kill-buck and a few of his warriors had entered, thegates were shut. The chiefs were then dressed in womensclothes and driven out. The soldiers laughed at them andcalled them squaws. To the proud savages this wasalmost worse than being killed. At length peace was declared between France andEngland, and then the massacres ceased. This was theend of Indian wars in Marylan
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . «.^^o»a^^^^^^^^!^ INDIAN BOY LEARNING TO SHOOT INDIAN MASSACRES to be allowed to enter the fort. The commandant pre-tended to believe them and opened the gates. But as soonas Kill-buck and a few of his warriors had entered, thegates were shut. The chiefs were then dressed in womensclothes and driven out. The soldiers laughed at them andcalled them squaws. To the proud savages this wasalmost worse than being killed. At length peace was declared between France andEngland, and then the massacres ceased. This was theend of Indian wars in Maryland. The Indians must notbe too much blamed. They fought in the manner of alltheir race. As long as it was a question of the Marylandsettlers on one side and the Indians on the other, we haveseen that but little trouble arose. It was only whentwo nations of whites, fighting against each other, tooksavage Indians for their allies, that the settlers sufferedthe worst cruelties of Indian ^fe 79 VII MASTER AND SERVANT YOU must remember that in the days when Marylandwas first settled, as now, Englishmen were dividedinto distinct classes. There were the aristocracyand nobility, the middle class of merchants, and theartisans and laborers. Not a few gentlemen, members ofnoble families, came to the New World. But of coursemost of the settlers were artisans, laborers and farmers. When they arrived in the colony they all became, richand poor alike, farmers. Even those who had a trade—blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers—were obliged tocultivate their fields and gardens. For the first thing thesettlers had to think of, after getting a roof to sleep under,was food. Except that they all became farmers the settlers werenot alike. To the gentlemen who were rich Lord Balti-more granted large estates. Many of them received athousand acres of land. Some few received as much evenas twenty thousand acres. But most of the settlersreceived homesteads of from fifty to one hundred acres
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