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Maryland Day (Maryland Manual Online, A guide to Maryland and its Government, 2021/01/03)

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Text: none Quote: Maryland Day commemorates March 25, 1634. On that day, settlers disembarked from two small sailing ships - the Ark and the Dove - on to Maryland soil. At St. Clement's Island, they landed in what is now St. Mary's County, Maryland. "Maryland Day - March 25," Maryland Manual Online , Maryland at a Glance: Holidays,  https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/mday.html , accessed: 2021/01/03. Online Source:   msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/mday.html Images:

Maryland Day ("St. Clement's Island State Park," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2021/01/03)

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Text: none Quote: St. Clement's Island Historic Marker, September 2009 [On the Marker: "Saint Clement's Island (one-half mile offshore) Site of the first landing of governor Leonard Calvert and the Maryland colonists, March 25, 1634. Here, on the same day, Father Andrew White, S. J. celebrated the first Catholic Mass in the British-American Colonies. ... Maryland Historical Society] "St. Clement's Island State Park," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clement%27s_Island_State_Park , accessed: 2021/01/03. Online Source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clement%27s_Island_State_Park ;  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Clements_Island_Marker_Sept_09.JPG Images:

Maryland landing (White; McSherry, tr.; Dalrymple, ed., Relatio itineris in Marylandiam, 1874)

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Text: none Quote:    Ac tandem hinc solventes, caput quod vocant consolationis in Virginiâ tenuimus, 27. Februarii pleni metu, [...]    At length, sailing from this place, we reached the cape , which they call Point Comfort , in Virginia, on the 27th of February, [...]    Post octo vel novem dierum benignam tractationem, tertio Martii vela facientes, et in sinum Cosopeak (Chesapeak) invecti cursum ad aquilonem defleximus, ut fluvio Patomeack  potiremur. [...]    After being kindly treated for eight or nine days, we set sail on the third of March, and entering the Chesapeak Bay, we turned our course to the north to reach the Potomeack River. [...] White, Andrew; McSherry, William, tr.; Dalrymple, Edwin A., ed.; Jesuits: Letters from missions (North America), Relatio itineris in Marylandiam: declaratio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro; Excerpta ex diversis litteris mission...