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following from Hammond’s “Leali and Rachel” (Edition of
1655). *)
“The Independents knew not in those straits how to
dispose of themselves.”
“Maryland was courted by them as a refuge, the Lord Pro-
prietor and his Governor solicited to, and several addresses
and treaties made for their admittance and entertainment into
that Province, their conditions were pittied, their propositions
were hearkened unto and agreed on, which was that they
should have convenient portions of land assigned them, liberty
of conscience and privilege to chose their own officiers, and
hold courts within themselves, all was granted them, they had
a whole County of the riebest land in the Province assigned
them, and such as themselves made choice of, the conditions of
plantations (such as were common to all adventures) were
showed and propounded to them, which they extremely approved
of, and nothing was in those conditions, exacted from them, but
appeals to the Provincial court, quit-rents, and an oath of fide-
litie to the Proprietor, an Assembly was called throughout the
whole country after the coming over, (consisting as well of
themselves as the rest) and because there were some few Pa-
pists that first inhabited these themselves, and others of being
different judgments, an act passed that all professing in Jesus
Christ should have equal justice, Privileges and benefits in that
settled in Virginia from which colony they were afterwards driven out, they then
went to Maryland ahout 1649, and founded a small Settlement called Providence
not for from where Annapolis now Stands.” Scharf, p. 37.
Griffith in his History of Maryland (Edition of 1821) says — “Many of
the Puritans had emigrated from Virginia, where they were persecuted by the
Episcopalians, and people of that and other sects from New England where the
Puritans persecuted them.” Griffith further continues (p. 5), “It does not appear
that these colonists were actuated by an over pious zeal to convert the heathen,
or the extravagant project of finding a passage to the east through the western
continent: but, out of respect for their religion, they planted the cross, and after
fortifying themselves, plainly and openly set about to obtain by the fairest means
in their power, other property and homes, where they should escape the perse-
cutions of the religious and political reformers of their native country at that
period.”
1) May be obtained in British Museum,
following from Hammond’s “Leali and Rachel” (Edition of
1655). *)
“The Independents knew not in those straits how to
dispose of themselves.”
“Maryland was courted by them as a refuge, the Lord Pro-
prietor and his Governor solicited to, and several addresses
and treaties made for their admittance and entertainment into
that Province, their conditions were pittied, their propositions
were hearkened unto and agreed on, which was that they
should have convenient portions of land assigned them, liberty
of conscience and privilege to chose their own officiers, and
hold courts within themselves, all was granted them, they had
a whole County of the riebest land in the Province assigned
them, and such as themselves made choice of, the conditions of
plantations (such as were common to all adventures) were
showed and propounded to them, which they extremely approved
of, and nothing was in those conditions, exacted from them, but
appeals to the Provincial court, quit-rents, and an oath of fide-
litie to the Proprietor, an Assembly was called throughout the
whole country after the coming over, (consisting as well of
themselves as the rest) and because there were some few Pa-
pists that first inhabited these themselves, and others of being
different judgments, an act passed that all professing in Jesus
Christ should have equal justice, Privileges and benefits in that
settled in Virginia from which colony they were afterwards driven out, they then
went to Maryland ahout 1649, and founded a small Settlement called Providence
not for from where Annapolis now Stands.” Scharf, p. 37.
Griffith in his History of Maryland (Edition of 1821) says — “Many of
the Puritans had emigrated from Virginia, where they were persecuted by the
Episcopalians, and people of that and other sects from New England where the
Puritans persecuted them.” Griffith further continues (p. 5), “It does not appear
that these colonists were actuated by an over pious zeal to convert the heathen,
or the extravagant project of finding a passage to the east through the western
continent: but, out of respect for their religion, they planted the cross, and after
fortifying themselves, plainly and openly set about to obtain by the fairest means
in their power, other property and homes, where they should escape the perse-
cutions of the religious and political reformers of their native country at that
period.”
1) May be obtained in British Museum,