[Footnote 4:  Md.  Archives, III., 33. ]

[Footnote 5:  Browne, George and Cecilius Calvert, 49.]

[Footnote 6:  Md.  Archives, V., 164-168.]

[Footnote 7:  Ibid., III., 29.]

[Footnote 8:  Neill, Founders of Maryland, 51.]

[Footnote 9:  Md.  Archives III., 37.]

[Footnote 10:  Browne, George and Cecilius Calvert, 69.]

[Footnote 11:  Md.  Archives, V., 187.]

[Footnote 12:  Md.  Archives, III., 42-93.]

[Footnote 13:  White, Relation (Force, Tracts, IV., No. xii.).]

[Footnote 14:  Md.  Archives, I., 119, IV., 38.]

[Footnote 15:  Calvert Papers (Md.  Hist.  Soc., Fund Publications, No. 35), 166, 216, 217; Md.  Archives, III., 227.]

[Footnote 16:  Winthrop, New England, II., 179.]

[Footnote 17:  Md.  Archives, IV., 246-249.]

[Footnote 18:  Neill, Founders of Maryland, 75; Md.  Archives, III., 165, 177.]

[Footnote 19:  Bozman, Maryland, II., 293.]

[Footnote 20:  Hening, Statutes, I., 321.]

[Footnote 21:  Bozman, Maryland, II., 296.]

[Footnote 22:  Md.  Archives, IV., 281, 435, 458, 459.]

[Footnote 23:  Hazard, State Papers, I., 493.]

[Footnote 24:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 340.]

[Footnote 25:  Md.  Archives, III., 164, 180, 187.]

[Footnote 26:  Md.  Archives, III., 211, 214.]

[Footnote 27:  Ibid., I., 244-247.]

[Footnote 28:  Ibid., III., 201.]

[Footnote 29:  Md.  Archives, I., 261, 287.]

[Footnote 30:  Ibid., III., 196.]

[Footnote 31:  Ibid., I., 305.]

[Footnote 32:  Neill, Terra Mariae, 88.]

[Footnote 33:  Bozman, Maryland, II., 672.]

[Footnote 34:  Md.  Archives, III., 259.]

[Footnote 35:  Md.  Archives, III., 265.]

[Footnote 36:  Ibid., 271-277.]

[Footnote 37:  Hammond, Leah and Rachel (Force, Tracts, III., No. xiv.).]

CHAPTER IX

FOUNDING OF PLYMOUTH

(1608-1630)

After the disastrous failure of the Popham colony in 1608 the Plymouth Company for several years was inactive.  Its members were lacking in enthusiastic co-operation, and therefore did not attract, like the London Company, the money and energy of the nation.  After Sir John Popham’s death, in 1607, his son Francis Popham was chiefly instrumental in sending out several vessels, which, though despatched for trade, served to keep up interest in the northern shores of America.

That coast threatened to be lost to Englishmen, for the French, in 1603, began to make settlements in Nova Scotia and in Mount Desert Island, near the mouth of the Penobscot, while their ships sailed southward along the New England shores.  The Dutch, too, explored the Hudson (1609) and prepared the way for a colony there.  It was, therefore, a great service to England when Captain Argall, under the authority of Sir Thomas Dale, in 1613, dislodged the French at Mount Desert, Port Royal, and St. Croix.