A history of the United States . cal cavalier, astaunch upholder of ll^^^king and church, who appointedthanked Godthere were no schools or printing presses inVirginia and hoped there wouldnot be for a hundred years. TheVirginians of those days wereopposed to the high church viewsof Laud and many moderatePuritans came to the Puritan settlement in Nan-semund county made an appealto New England for ministers andin 1642 three arrived in Virginia. The following j^ear Berke-ley got the Assembly to pass a severe act against noncon-formists and the New England ministers had to leave. Thesec
A history of the United States . cal cavalier, astaunch upholder of ll^^^king and church, who appointedthanked Godthere were no schools or printing presses inVirginia and hoped there wouldnot be for a hundred years. TheVirginians of those days wereopposed to the high church viewsof Laud and many moderatePuritans came to the Puritan settlement in Nan-semund county made an appealto New England for ministers andin 1642 three arrived in Virginia. The following j^ear Berke-ley got the Assembly to pass a severe act against noncon-formists and the New England ministers had to leave. Thesecond Indian massacre which followed shortly afterwardsin 1644, in which over three hundred whites perished, was re-ferred to by John Winthrop, the governor of Massachusetts,as a special act of Providence. As the fortunes of the Puritan party rose in EnglandGovernor Berkeley became more intolerant of Puritanism inVirginia, and in 1649, shortly after Charles I was beheaded,more than a thousand Puritans left the colony for Sir William Berkeley, Gov-ernor of Virginia. The Colonies At the invitation of Governor Stone they settled on the Severn at a place called by them Providence, but known to later generations as Annapolis. The founder of Maryland, George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, seems to have been actuated by two motives; first, the creation of aThe found- ., . ing of great tanuly domain, Maryland, ^nd second, the es-talDlishment of a placeof refuge for Catholics. In 1627he took his family and a groupof settlers to Newfoundland, buttwo years later he went south insearch of a warmer climate, andarrived at Jamestown in October,1629. He was not a welcomeguest, though the council appearsto have treated him with respect,if we may judge by the followingentry on the record: ThomasTindall to be pilloried two hours for giving my Lord Balti-more the lie and threatening to knock him down. Lord Baltimore, who was a favorite of James I, had beena member of the Virginia Company,
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