#123 The Founding of Maryland Part 2: The Ark and the Dove
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Charter of Maryland having passed seals, Cecil Calvert, the Second Lord Baltimore, stayed in England to fend off political attacks against his Proprietary Colony. He asked his younger brother Leonard to lead the first settlers in the Ark and the Dove to the banks of the Potomac River. When they get there in the early spring of 1634, they meet Henry Fleet, an English trader who had been in the area since 1621, four of those years as the captive of one of the tribes in the northern Chesapeake. Fleet would turn out to be instrumental in the very successful first year of the Maryland settlement, at St. Mary’s City.
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Selected references for this episode
Matthew Page Andrews, The Founding of Maryland
George Bancroft, History Of The United States Of America, Volume 1
Wesley Frank Craven, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1689
A. J. Morrison, “The Virginia Indian Trade to 1673,” The William and Mary Quarterly, October 1921
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 123. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm your host, Jack Henneman, and I'm recording this on July 24, 2023 in New Orleans. |
| 0:19.2 | We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States |
| 0:23.2 | from the beginning without presentism, or as little of it as we can arrange. Before we jump into |
| 0:30.5 | the history, find a couple of announcements mostly relevant for those of you listening in |
| 0:35.0 | close to real time. First, it was my great honor last week to be |
| 0:40.3 | appointed to the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as Fire. |
| 0:47.1 | Fire has become the premier free speech advocacy organization, devoted not only to fighting |
| 0:52.6 | legal battles against the suppression of speech |
| 0:55.2 | or censorship, but also to strengthening our long national culture of open expression. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm sure that longstanding and attentive listeners have perceived that this is a cause that |
| 1:07.6 | means a lot to me. I'll put a link in the episode notes on the website for the |
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| 1:25.5 | Second, I'm about to embark on a four-week summer road trip to the |
| 1:30.2 | Adirondacks and back with my wife and our dog Hubble. It will involve a couple of weeks at the |
| 1:36.4 | aforementioned secure undisclosed location outside Tupper Lake, New York, among other stops. |
| 1:42.5 | I will bring my microphone and some fodder for a few episodes, |
| 1:46.2 | be the usual, you know, tote bag full of books, but new material will probably roll out |
| 1:51.7 | at slightly wider intervals than usual, usual being lately about every 10 days. |
| 1:58.1 | That said, if there are listeners who want to grab a beer in the upper Adirondacks |
| 2:02.6 | during the first 10 days of August, please get in touch by the usual means, and we can see |
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