Father Andrew White’s First Impressions of Maryland & Its Native Inhabitants
Andrew White 1634 Father White was a Jesuit priest, and originally wrote this narrative in Latin. Maryland was initially colonized by Catholic dissenters from England, under a grant from King Charles I to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, whose father, Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, had been a favorite of King James I and had been his Secretary of State until he declared his Catholicism At length, sailing from this, we reached what they call Point Comfort,…