From the first they have with them women
and children. They know that their settlement is "home." Soon other ships
and colonists follow the Ark and the Dove to St. Mary's, and the history of
this middle colony is well begun.
In Virginia, meantime, there was jealousy enough of the new colony, taking
as it did territory held to be Virginian and renaming it, not for the old,
independent, Protestant, virgin queen, but for a French, Catholic, queen
consort -- even settling it with believers in the Mass and bringing in
Jesuits! It was, says a Jamestown settler, "accounted a crime almost as
heinous as treason to favour, nay to speak well of that colony." Beside the
Virginian folk as a whole, one man, in particular, William Claiborne,
nursed an individual grievance. He had it from Governor Calvert that he
might dwell on in Kent Island, trading from there, but only under license
from the Lord Proprietor and as an inhabitant of Maryland, not of Virginia.
Claiborne, with the Assembly at Jamestown secretly on his side, resisted
this interference with his rights, and, as he continued to trade with a
high hand, he soon fell under suspicion of stirring up the Indians against
the Marylanders.
At the time, this quarrel rang loud through Maryland and Virginia, and even
echoed across the Atlantic. Leonard Calvert had a trading-boat of
Claiborne's seized in the Patuxent River. Thereupon Claiborne's men, with
the shallop Cockatrice, in retaliation attacked Maryland pinnaces and lost
both their lives and their boat.
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