HISTORICAL DATA-1634:









  •   JANUARY:    At this time there is an Irish Catholic settlement at Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea; the Irish are here because the Protestant English settlers in Virginia  have forbidden them to live in Virginia.  (SOURCE:  "A Briefe Relation of the Voyage Unto Maryland" by  Father Andrew White, 1634, page 16; transcribed on Archives of Maryland Online website at:  http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000552/html/am552--16.html   retrieved 11/3/2014-GD).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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  •  MARCH

  •  APRIL

  •  MAY

  •  JUNE:    At some time during this month the Catholic nobleman Sir Edmund Plowden receives a charter from King Charles I of England; this charter allows him to plant a colony on "Long Isle" in North America, as well as to lands which in what will later become the states of New Jersey and Delaware. This entire grant is to be called "New Albion" or "Plowden's Isle". Included in the charter are plans to preach to, and to convert, the local  Native Americans as well as to provide a shelter for persecuted persons. There is to be "no persecution to any dissenting [persons]" and punishment as seditioners for those who condemn others for their religious practices.  (SOURCE:  HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN 1853-1953 The Catholic Church on Long Island by John K. Sharp Volume I FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York, 1954, page 3).

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  • NO SPECIFIC DATE:    At some time during this year the ships Ark and Dove bring settlers to the colony of Maryland in North America from England.  (SOURCE:  Washington Goes To War-by David Brinkley ((paperback)), pg. 8).

  • NO SPECIFIC DATE    At some time during this year the first settlers of the English colony of Maryland in North America arrive there under the sponsorship of Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. They establish the town of St. Mary's, just north of the Potomic River. (Source: The American Nation...to 1877-Volume I, Second Edition-John A. Garraty, pg. 35).

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