Documents of American and Maryland History


Time Period
1600 - 1650
U.S. Constitution
Baltimore Land Grant
Earth Globe

  1602 Bartholomew Gosnold Sails  Northeast America

1606 - The First Charter of Virginia; April 10

1609 Samuel de Champlain Uses Firearms in Native Warfare

1609 The Dutch Arrive on Manhattan Island: An Indian Perspective

1635 The Founding of Concord in Massachusetts Bay

1637 - Proclamation Against the Disorderly Transporting His Majesty's subjects to the Plantations Within the Parts of America; April 30

1640's Narragansett Alliance Against Settlers in New England and Long Island

1643 Roger Williams Observes Indian Customs and Language  


 




1608 Powhatan Exchanges Views With Captain John Smith


1609 John Smith Recounts the "Starving Times" of Jamestown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




















1635 Indentured Servants 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
















1649 - Maryland Toleration Act; September 21


 

Pre 1600
1600 - 1650

1650 - 1700
1700 - 1750
1750 - 1800
1800 - 1860

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