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Page 10
... trading post on Kent Island , although the island was not regularly settled until two years later . 1 Encouraged by the success of his enterprises in Chesapeake Bay , Claiborne decided to extend his trade beyond the limits of Virginia ...
... trading post on Kent Island , although the island was not regularly settled until two years later . 1 Encouraged by the success of his enterprises in Chesapeake Bay , Claiborne decided to extend his trade beyond the limits of Virginia ...
Page 11
... trading post was converted into a regular plantation . Captain William Claiborne , accord- ing to his own statement , " entered upon the Isle of Kent , unplanted by any man , but possessed by the natives of that country , with about 100 ...
... trading post was converted into a regular plantation . Captain William Claiborne , accord- ing to his own statement , " entered upon the Isle of Kent , unplanted by any man , but possessed by the natives of that country , with about 100 ...
Page 12
... trading post . Such was not the case . It appears from certain depositions taken in Virginia in May , 1640 , in the case of Claiborne vs. Clobery , et al . , that the island was stocked with between 150 and 200 cattle , that orchards ...
... trading post . Such was not the case . It appears from certain depositions taken in Virginia in May , 1640 , in the case of Claiborne vs. Clobery , et al . , that the island was stocked with between 150 and 200 cattle , that orchards ...
Page 15
... trade in the waters of the Chesapeake without license from Lord Baltimore . Shortly after the Maryland colony had arrived at St. Mary's , charges were preferred against Claiborne by Captain Henry 1 Maryland Archives , Council ...
... trade in the waters of the Chesapeake without license from Lord Baltimore . Shortly after the Maryland colony had arrived at St. Mary's , charges were preferred against Claiborne by Captain Henry 1 Maryland Archives , Council ...
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... trade , and upon the arrival of Baltimore's colony had pursued exactly the opposite policy , casting in his lot with the government at St. Mary's . Hence it was natural for one , who upon other occasions gave evidence of ...
... trade , and upon the arrival of Baltimore's colony had pursued exactly the opposite policy , casting in his lot with the government at St. Mary's . Hence it was natural for one , who upon other occasions gave evidence of ...
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