The second Baltimore
therefore remained in England to safeguard his charter and his interests.
The family of Baltimore was an able one. Cecil Calvert had two brothers,
Leonard and George, and these would go to Maryland in his place. Leonard he
made Governor and Lieutenant-general, and appointed him councilor. Ships
were made ready -- the Ark of three hundred tons and the Dove of fifty. The
colonists went aboard at Gravesend, where these ships rode at anchor. Of
the company a great number were Protestants, willing to take land, if their
condition were bettered so, with Catholics. Difficulties of many kinds kept
them all long at the mouth of the Thames, but at last, late in November,
1633, the Ark and the Dove set sail. Touching at the Isle of Wight, they
took aboard two Jesuit priests, Father White and Father Altham, and a
number of other colonists. Baltimore reported that the expedition consisted
of "two of my brothers with very near twenty other gentlemen of very good
fashion, and three hundred labouring men well provided in all things."
These ships, with the first Marylanders, went by the old West Indies sea
route. We find them resting at Barbados; then they swung to the north and,
in February, 1634, came to Point Comfort in Virginia. Here they took
supplies, being treated by Sir John Harvey (who had received a letter from
the King) with "courtesy and humanity." Without long tarrying, for they
were sick now for land of their own, they sailed on up the great bay, the
Chesapeake.
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