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the heir ofhis ther's intentions, not less than of his ther's rtunes, the charter of Maryland was pub­ lished and con rmed; and he obtained the high dis­ tinction of success lly per rming what the colonial companies had hardly been able to achieve.
2. It was not long, be re gentlemen of birth and quality resolved to adventure their lives and rtunes in the enterprise of planting a colony under so ­ vourable a charter. Lord Baltimore, who, r some unknown reason abandoned his purpose of conduct­ ing the emigrants in person, appointed his brother to act as his lieutenant; and, on Friday, the 22d ofNo­ vember, with a small but vouring gale, Leonard Calvert and about two hundred people, most ofthem Roman Catholic gentlemen and their servants, in the Ark and the Dove, a ship oflarge burthen and a pin­ nace, set sail r the northern bank of the Potomac. Having stayed by the way in Barbadoes and St.
Christopher, it was not till February of the llowing year that they arrived at Point Comfort, in Virginia; where, in obedience to the express letters of King Charles, they were welcomed by I-Iarvey with cour­ tesy and humanity.
3. Leaving Point Com rt, Calvert sailed into the Potomac, and with the pinnace ascended the stream. A cross was planted on an island, and the country claimed r Christ and r England. At about rty­ seven leagues above the mouth of the Potomac, be und the village ofPiscataqua, an Indian settlement nearly opposite fount Vernon. The chieftain of the tribe would neither bid them go nor stay; "he might
use bis own discretion." It did not seem safe r the English to plant the rst settlement so high up the river; Calvert descended the stream, examining in is barge the creeks and estuaries near the Chesa-