Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 125.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on August 6, 2023, in a secure,

undisclosed location outside of Tupper Lake, New York.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States

from the beginning without presentism, or, you know, as little as we can manage.

It is the fall of 1635.

In Boston, the oldest surviving school in today's United States, the Boston Latin School, has been founded the previous spring.

The Hutchinson family has arrived in Boston, and Ann Hutchinson is no doubt paying very close attention to the trial of Roger Williams, who would be convicted and sentenced

to banishment in early October. That winter, Williams would flee to Narragansett Bay and shelter

with the tribes in the region along the way. Also, in October 1635, Samuel de Champlain would

suffer a severe stroke and die in Quebec on Christmas

Day.

In Maryland, 18 months have passed since the Ark and the Dove arrived.

Leonard Calvert, the brother of the Lord proprietor Cecil Calvert, and the more than 200 settlers

had through the good offices of Henry

Fleet, secured a site for their settlement at St. Mary's City, purchased land from the local tribe,

built a palisade, and grown enough food that they had surplus to export. All, however, was not

rosy. The Marylanders were in a shooting war, albeit a really teeny-weeny one, with Virginians led by Thomas Claiborne, who had established a trading post and plantation on Kent Island, which sits in proprietary territory more than 50 miles north of St. Mary's City as the robust crow flies.

We covered that story and that time Maryland of Virginia went to war back in April 2023, episode 112 as Apple reckons it.

The Marylanders still needed to set up a functioning government.

As of the fall of 1635, Cecil Calvert, back in England, was still the Lord

proprietor with almost royal powers to the full extent of the Bishop of Durham Clause.

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