. A history of the United States for secondary schools . ses, of sovereignty over a largepart of what the Virginians considered their domain. Itcovered the region between the Potomac and the Dela-ware Bay and River, up to the 40th parallel of northlatitude, creating a principality of the kind known aspalatine (see sect. 28). This palatinate wasto be called Maryland, in honor of the queen of moresCharles I. It had been promised to GeorgeCalvert, first Lord Baltimore, the father of Cecilius, buthe died before the patent was signed, and it went tohis son. Father and son had recently entered the C
. A history of the United States for secondary schools . ses, of sovereignty over a largepart of what the Virginians considered their domain. Itcovered the region between the Potomac and the Dela-ware Bay and River, up to the 40th parallel of northlatitude, creating a principality of the kind known aspalatine (see sect. 28). This palatinate wasto be called Maryland, in honor of the queen of moresCharles I. It had been promised to GeorgeCalvert, first Lord Baltimore, the father of Cecilius, buthe died before the patent was signed, and it went tohis son. Father and son had recently entered the Cath-olic church, and their object was to establish a place ofrefuge in America for people of that communipn, whowere cruelly treated by English laws. The elder Calverthad attempted this first, under a similar grant, in New-foundland, but thought the climate too severe. The settlement of Maryland was begun in the springof 1634, by a company of P2nglish immigrants, bothCatholic and Protestant, led by Leonard Calvert, brother 34 THE COMING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT IN MARYLAND. of Ceciliiis, who selected their home at St, Marys, onthe river of that name. St. Marys was then an Indian vil-lage, with corn-fieldsin fair cultivation, allof which were boughtfrom the residenttribe, and the grow-ing of corn receivedattention at immigrants fol-lowed, other settle-ments were founded,and the colony grewapace. Catholics andProtestants living peacefully together, equally free intheir worship of God. The same religious freedomwas established in those same years by Roger Religious -,, -nt -r» 1 • • i andpoiiti- \\ iluams, on Narragansett Bay, but it existed cal liberty. , t» t • 1 ti ^ nowhere else, rolitical liberty, also, was in-tended by Lord Baltimore, who planned for it with agenerous mind. All the freemen of the colony werecalled together as early as 1635, to sit in assembly withthe governor (Leonard Calvert) and his council and takepart in the preparation o
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