Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-10-18
OLD MAP GIVES
DESCRIPTION OF
MARYLAND STATE


Bay Line of Steamers. On the reverse
side of this map was the following
description of Maryland:
It was in the year 1881 that his late
Majesty gave grant to George Lord
Baltimore for the possessing and plant
ing the Southern part of New-Nether-
land, now Yorkshire, lying to-
ward Virginia; when upon his En-
bassy to the States of Holland they
declared by public writing their dis
sent to whatever had been acted by
any of their subjects in prejudice Of
his Majesties Right and Title in those
parts, as hath been already mentioned.
Crescentia was the name first in de-
signation for this Country; but it be-
ing left to his Majesty at the time OF
his signing of the Bill, to give it what
denomination he judged fittest he was
pleased in honour of his Royal Con-
sort Queen Mary, to erect it into a
Province by the name Maryland;
which Patent, upon the death Of his
Lordship, before the final ratification
thereof, was not long after confirmed
under the Broad-Seal of England,
bearing date June 20, Ann. 1882, to his
Son and Heir Coecilius the now, Lord
Baltimore; investing him, his heirs
and successors with the Sovereign
ty, attended with all Royal Preroga-
tives both Military and Civil, as alb
solute Lords and Proprietors of the
said Province, saving only the Alleg-
lance and Sovereign homage due to
his Majesty, his Heirs and Success
ors; of whom they were to hold it,
as of his Majesties honour of Wind
sor; for the yearly payment at the
Castle of the said honour of Windsor
on every Easter Tuesday, of two In
dian Arrows of those parts; and the
fifth part of all the Gold and Silver
Ore which should happen to be found
there.
The next year after this Patent had
past, viz. in the year 1858, a Colony
of about 200 in all, Servants and
Planters, whereof some persons of
quality was sent over by the Lord
Proprietor, under the conduct of his
Lordships two Brothers, Mr.. Leonard,
and Mr.. George Calvert: the first of
whom was made Governor of the
Province for his Lordship, and from
thence forward this Plantation hath
prospered, and by the several sup
plies since sent, very much increased;
to which good success, the good Gov
eminent of the said Mr.. Leonard, and
his strict observance of his Lord
ships prudent instructions, very
much conduced. The first place they
pitch'd upon to plant themselves in,
was Yaocomaco, now st. Maries, which
the Governor purchased of the natives:
(for never hath any forcible or vio-
lent invasion of any mans right been
made here by any of his Lordships
Ministers) with such commodities as
they brought from England, though at
so much the more easy rate, in re-
gard of their pre-intentions to leave
this place, as thinking it their safest
course to remove farther off from
their too potent and valiant Neigh
bours the Sesquehanocks.
After the happy restauration of
his present Majesty, viz. in the year
1861, the Lord Proprietors only Son,
Mr.. Charles Calvert went over into
these parts, his Fathers Lieutenant;
in which charge he hath continued
ever since in great tranquility and
prosperity, and with general content
ment and satisfaction by his obliging
carriage to all that live under his Gov
eminent, or have any interests or
concerns in the Province.
This Province, according as it is
bounded and set out by the foremen-
toned Patent, extends one way. from
the most Northernly part which
bounds it to the South, and from
which it is parted by the Southernly
bank of the River Patowmeck to New
York, or the most Southernly part of
New England which bounds it North
ward; and from the Atlantick Ocean
and Delaware Bay Eastward to the
true Meridian of the first Fountain
of the River Patowmeck Westward.
The Climate here in Summer time
inclines to an extraordinary heat, and
in Winter issvery cold; but both the
heat of the Summer is very much al
layed by cool Breeses, and the cold of
the Winter is of short continuance
so that the Country is accounted suf-
ficiently healthful, and of late agrees
well enough with English bodies,
since the abatement and almost ex-
tinction, through the regulation of
diet, telling of the woods, etc. of that