Of Hoggs wee haue allready got from Achomack (a plantation in Virginia) to the number of 100, & more:  and some 30 Cowes; and more wee expect daily, with Goates and Hennes; our Horses and Sheepe wee must have out of England, or some other place by the way, for wee can haue none in Virginia.

[1] This account was compiled from letters written to friends in England by some of the original settlers about a year after their arrival.  George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, founder of Maryland, had sent a group of colonists to Newfoundland in 1621, but the venture being unsuccessful he secured a new grant north of the Potomac, to which, at the request of Charles I, he gave the name of Maryland, in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria.  Calvert, after a visit to Virginia, returned to England and there died before his charter was actually issued.  In consequence the grant was made out to Calvert’s son, Cecil.  Cecil Calvert at once organized a company of more than two hundred men, who effected a permanent settlement at St. Mary’s, which for sixty years was the capital of the colony of Maryland, Annapolis being afterward chosen.  Baltimore was not founded until 1729.

The account here given was published in London in 1634, and is the first extant description of the province.  It has been conjectured that Cecil Calvert prepared it from letters written by his brothers, Leonard and George.  The account is believed to preserve the exact language of the original writers of the letters.  Printed in “Old South Leaflets.”

    [2] Now called the Susquehanna.

    [3] The Susquehanna Indians.

ROGER WILLIAMS IN RHODE ISLAND

(1636)

BY NATHANIEL MORTON[1]

In the year 1634 Mr. Roger Williams removed from Plymouth to Salem:  he had lived about three years at Plymouth, where he was well accepted as an assistant in the ministry to Mr. Ralph Smith, then pastor of the church there, but by degrees venting of divers of his own singular opinions, and seeking to impose them upon others, he not finding such a concurrence as he expected, he desired his dismission to the Church of Salem, which though some were unwilling to, yet through the prudent counsel of Mr. Brewster (the ruling elder there) fearing that his continuance amongst them might cause division, and [thinking that] there being then many able men in the Bay, they would better deal with him then [than] themselves could ... the Church of Plymouth consented to his dismission, and such as did adhere to him were also dismissed, and removed with him, or not long after him, to Salem....