The History of Maryland - Historiography Author:John Bozman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Hostilities with the Indians—Preparations for training the militia—A further division of the county of St. Mary's—Lord Baltimore's right to the r... more »oyal game of the province—Clayborne's demand of his property within the province— An assembly called—Their proceedings—Remarks on the acts of the session —Judicial powers exercised by the assembly—Animosity of the Indians—Session of assembly in 1641—Some few acts of assembly therein—The session of 1642—Their proceedings—Religious discontents—The acts passed at the last session—New conditions of plantation—Maryland settlements on the Schuylkill—Attempt in England to revive the old charters of Virginia—The effect of that attempt upon Maryland—War with the Indians—Another session of assembly in 1642—Proceedings therein—Remarks on some of the acts of this last session—Preparations against the Indians. The proceedings of the last session of assembly, (of 1638-9,) CHAPT. together with the military preparations, which appear to have im-lHi mediately succeeded it, exhibit strong proofs, that the happy har- 1639; mony, which had hitherto subsisted between the natives and the w;th the colonists, was now at an end. These miserable aborigines of Indians, the country, particularly in Virginia and Maryland, seem to have been now generally sensible of their approaching ruin in the increase and permanence of the intruding colonists. Symptoms of a general discontent among all the tribes, inhabiting the shores of the Chesapeake, were now manifestly exhibited. It was about this period, that Opechancanough, the successor of Pow- hatan, and a chief, on whose heroic virtues the Virginian historians bestow high encomiums, must have began to meditate that horrible massacre of the colonists of that province, which took place not long afterwards...« less