The beginner's American history . of the trunk of a tree hol-lowed out, and they wondered where the English couldhave found a tree big enough to make it. The emigrants named their settlement St. Marys, be-cause they had landed on a day keptsacred to the Virgin Mary.^ TheIndians gave up one of their largestwigwams to Father White, one ofthe priests who had come over, andhe made a church of it. It was thefirst EngHsh Catholic Church whichwas opened in America. The Indians and the settlers livedand worked together side by side. The red men showedthe emigrants how to hunt in the forest, and the In
The beginner's American history . of the trunk of a tree hol-lowed out, and they wondered where the English couldhave found a tree big enough to make it. The emigrants named their settlement St. Marys, be-cause they had landed on a day keptsacred to the Virgin Mary.^ TheIndians gave up one of their largestwigwams to Father White, one ofthe priests who had come over, andhe made a church of it. It was thefirst EngHsh Catholic Church whichwas opened in America. The Indians and the settlers livedand worked together side by side. The red men showedthe emigrants how to hunt in the forest, and the Indianwomen taught the white women how to make hominy, andto bake johnny-cake before the open fire. 79. Maryland the home of relig^ious liberty. — Marylandwas different from the other English colonies in America,because there, and there only, every Christian, whetherCatholic or Protestant, had the right to worship God inhis own way. In that humble little village of St. Marys,made up of thirty or forty log huts and wigwams in the. 1 March 25tb : Annunciation or Lady Day. 54 THE BEGINNER S AMERICAN HISTORY. woods, religious liberty had its only home in the wideworld. But more than this, Lord Baltimore generously invitedpeople who had been driven out of the other settlementson account of their religion to come and live in gave a hearty welcome to all, whether they thought ashe did or not. Thus he showed that he was a noble manby nature as well as a nobleman by name. 80. Maryland falls into trouble; the city of Baltimore built.— But this happy state of things did not last long. Someof the people of Virginia were very angry because the kinghad given Lord Baltimore part of what they thought wastheir land. They quarrelled with the new settlers andmade them a great deal of trouble. Then worse things happened. Men went to Marylandand undertook to drive out the Catholics. In some casesthey acted in a very shameful manner toward Lord Balti-more and his friends ; among other
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