Taking Sail, Taking Chances
Two
ships, the Ark and the Dove, departed the Isle of Wight in England in
November of 1633 with Cecil Calvert's younger brother, Leonard, and
about 140 colonists to establish the colony. Cecil, the second Lord
Baltimore, could not go. He remained in England to defend the Maryland
charter. While the leaders of the new colony were predominantly
Catholic, Catholics were not, and would never be, the majority
population in Maryland. Most who settled here were Protestant indentured
servants, who traded years of their labor for transportation to the New
World.
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