Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . ht these laws too severe. So thatvery often a man or woman sentenced to death would havehis sentence commuted. That is, instead of being hangedhe would be sent to one of the colonies and sold to amaster for seven or fourteen years. Some of the men thus transported were not commoncriminals at all, but were political offenders. Not a fewwere Jacobites who were taken prisoners while fighting to MASTER AND SERVANT place James the Pretender on the English throne. Severalship-loads, mostly Scotchmen, were sent to were far from being
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . ht these laws too severe. So thatvery often a man or woman sentenced to death would havehis sentence commuted. That is, instead of being hangedhe would be sent to one of the colonies and sold to amaster for seven or fourteen years. Some of the men thus transported were not commoncriminals at all, but were political offenders. Not a fewwere Jacobites who were taken prisoners while fighting to MASTER AND SERVANT place James the Pretender on the English throne. Severalship-loads, mostly Scotchmen, were sent to were far from being an undesirable class of a few, with their descendants, have taken a prominentpart in the history of the State., Of the negro slaves but little need be said. There werea few slaves in the colony from its beginning. They werea race apart from all others. The laws regulated theirtreatment, and cruelty in a master was punished, but,unlike the other servants, they never regained their free-dom unless the master freed them of his own 87 VIII GERMANS AND FRENCH DID you ever stop to think how many differentnationalities there are in America? In Marylandto-day there are men from nearly every countryof the globe. Yet they are nearly all true Americans andloyal Marylanders. The earliest settlers in our State were, of course, Eng-lishmen. But at a very early date men of other nationsbegan to come to the colony. It was only about thirtyyears after the settlement of St. Marys that citizens werenaturalized in Maryland for the first time. Being natural-ized meant that, though they were foreign born, theyshould have the same rights as Englishmen. These naturalized citizens were Augustine Herman andhis family. Herman was a Bohemian born in came to Maryland by a sort of accident. Lord Balti-more got into a dispute with the people of Manhattan(New York) and Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of Man-hattan, sent Augustine Herman to Maryland as his agent. Herman liked the
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