Maryland was so called from Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I., by which king, in 1632, the territory was conceded to the Roman Catholic Lord Baltimore.  It was chiefly peopled by Roman Catholics, but I do not think that there is now any such specialty attaching to the State.  There are in it two or three old Roman Catholic families, but the people have come down from the North, and have no peculiar religious tendencies.  Some of Lord Baltimore’s descendants remained in the State up to the time of the Revolution.  From Baltimore I went on to Washington.

End of Vol.  I.