Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . from London and wentafter his tobacco. But he found that the tobacco hadalready been shipped away, and that the merchant haddisappeared. He employed a law^yer and went to havehis case tried at Annapolis, A City Situate on a Plain,Where scarce a House will keep out Rain. The houses were built of wood, and there was no marketplace or exchange. He won his case, but the verdict said he should receive^ country pay, that is, staves, corn and other such arti-cles, for which he had no use. Disgusted he left the townand hurried to a port which he cal
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . from London and wentafter his tobacco. But he found that the tobacco hadalready been shipped away, and that the merchant haddisappeared. He employed a law^yer and went to havehis case tried at Annapolis, A City Situate on a Plain,Where scarce a House will keep out Rain. The houses were built of wood, and there was no marketplace or exchange. He won his case, but the verdict said he should receive^ country pay, that is, staves, corn and other such arti-cles, for which he had no use. Disgusted he left the townand hurried to a port which he calls Kicketan whencethe England bound fleet sailed home. There, *Net, that is, not counting the weight of tlie cask. 106 EARLY ACCOUNTS OF THE PROVINCE Embarqud and waiting for a WindI left this dreadful Curse behind. I do not believe Ebenezer Cook ever came back toMarvland, do you? He was too fussy and hard to pleaseto get along well in a new land. But it might have donehim good to be kidnapped and sent over as a redemptionerfor three or four 107 X A VISIT TO ANNAPOLIS WE have come to a time just before the outbreak ofthe Revolution. It is more than one hundredyears since the settlement of St. Marys. Manychanges have taken place in Maryland. Instead of thetwo or three hundred men who landed from the Ark andthe Dove, there are now in the colony two hundredthousand. These men are not all farmers now. Many ofthem are lawyers and merchants. Thousands of vessels, every year, bring goods to thecolony and carry away corn, provisions, skins, lumber andhemp to England and her colonies. Thousands of barrelsof flour and hundreds of thousands of bushels of wheatleave Maryland each year. But, above all, ship after shipsails away to England laden with tobacco. In fact tobacco took the place of money. Everyonegrew tobacco because it was used as money, thinking inthis way to grow rich. But then the tobacco became soplentiful that it was worth less than before. So that evenif a man had g
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