Who Were the Early Settlers of Maryland: A Paper Read Before the 'Maryland Historical Society,' at Its Meeting Held Thursday Evening, October 5, 1865 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Who Were the Early Settlers of Maryland: A Paper Read Before the'Maryland Historical Society,'at Its Meeting Held Thursday Evening, October 5, 1865 (Classic Reprint)IF this question be answered in reference to individuals, we are shown that Kent Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, the first settlement in what is now the State of Maryland, was settled under the proprietorship of William Claiborne, a member of the Council and Secretary of State, of the Virginia Colony. But the names of the individual settlers under him during the first five years, have not come down to us.