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|  | | Chesapeake Conflict: The Troublesome Early Days of Maryland
Maryland's troubles began before there was a Maryland--in 1621, the year William Claiborne of England arrived in Virginia and built his successful trading venture in upper Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Conflict deals with the first serious boundary controversy in the American colonies, leading to the first naval battle in America. It began in 1632, the year the English king gave a patent to his friend Lord Baltimore for a province carved out of territory originally granted to Virginia. The province became Maryland and absorbed territories settled in the upper Chesapeake by Virginia fur trader William Claiborne. This historic dispute, primarily between parliamentarianClaiborne and royalist Baltimore evolved into a colonial extension of the bloody English Civil War between the monar | |  | | Guns on the Chesapeake: The Winning of America's Independence
The focus of this book is the revolutionary role of the two Chesapeake colonies, Virginia and Maryland, in the winning of America's independence.
By the time the American colonies announced their independence in 1776, Chesapeake Bay, "a colonial avenue of trade, had become an avenue of war," wrote Jean B. Lee. That avenue led to a new nation.
The communities along the Chesapeake and the many tributaries that crisscross Virginia and Maryland were under constant threat from the British during the Revolutionary War, beginning in 1775 with their assault on the small Virginia town of Hampton and devastating bombardment of Norfolk, through the naval conflicts and blockades, pillaging raids and burnings of shipyards, warehouses, ho | |  | | Of the Sea and Skies: Historic Hampton and Its Times
They came from the sea and settled Hampton in 1610 on the site of an ancient Indian village that one day would become the NASA proving grounds for America's first leap into space.
Hampton's story is America's story.
This history of Hampton, Virginia, covers a period of more than 500 years, beginning with the exploratory voyages and expeditions that led to the colonization of Virginia at nearby Jamestown in 1607. Hampton survives today as the oldest English speaking settlement in continuous existence outside the British Isles. The name Hampton comes from the third Earl of Southampton who, in addition to being principal officer of the Virginia Company until it was dissolved and Virginia became the first royal colony, was the young nobleman to whom Shakespeare dedicated his narrative poems.
Destr | |  | | We Claim Right of Possession: The Saga of William Claiborne
Book-length narrative poem of 17th century dispute in upper Chesapeake Bay between Virginia fur trader William Claiborne and Maryland, leading to piracy, open war, and the first major naval engagement in American waters.
William Claiborne arrived in Virginia in 1621 from Kent County, England, a 21-year-old surveyor who quickly rose to prominence and political power. This presented unique opportunities to explore Chesapeake Bay and barter with the Algonkian Indians. On early voyages up the bay he sighted, purchased, named, and settled Kent Island, the base from which he launched an extensive and profitable trading enterprise.
Claiborne soon learned that territorial rights in English America were loosely defined and often ignored. The English king awarded Lord Baltimore a proprietary grant to Virginia |
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