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    settlement of Maryland was begun by Lord Baltimore , itt the year 1632 , as a refuge for the Roman Catholic feith , htmted and proscribed in its turn by the spirit of the people in the reign of Charles L Delaware was afterwards disjointed from it , and after being incorporated with Pennsylvania became a separate state . The Dutch discovered and founded New York

    in 1609 , but it was finally ceded to England in 1664 , and granted by patent to the Cuke of York by Charles II . One portion of his territory was immediately sold by the new proprietor to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret , who obtained a separate charter for it , under the name of New Jersey . The Carolinas had served as a refuge , and then as a grave , for a large number of French Huguenots sent there by

    the exertions of the Admiral de Coligni in the reign of Charles IX ., and massacred to the number of nearly one thousand by the Spaniards , who announced by a placard that the punishment was inflicted on them , not as subjects of France , but as followers of Luther . The Spaniards had then remained in possession , but they were in their turn destroyed by De Gorgues a French nobleman , who , determined to

    revenge his countrymen , fitted out three ships at bis own expense , and with the assistance of the neighbouring Indian * put them all to the sword , also erecting a placard which stated that they had suffered not as Spaniards , but as robbers and murderers , and then haying destroyed every trace of the settlement , returned to France . The scene of these tragedies remained unpeopled till , in 1663 , Charles II . granted it to Lord Clarendon and several others of his courtiers , who

    became the chartered proprietors . Pennsylvania was colonised in 1680 by the celebrated William Penn , to provide an asylum for the sect of Quakers , at that time persecuted with the most intolerant bigotry . Georgia was erected into a province by a charter of George II . in 1732 , and its

    management vested for a term of years in the hands of twenty-one trustees , amongst whom we find the name of Lord Shaftesbury , the author of the ifc Characteristics . " Government was the more ready to grant the land and charter for this new colony , as it formed a barrier of defence for Carolina ; but the

    prune mover of the plan was James Edward Oglethorpe , a colonel in the British army and member of parliament , who was prompted by an ardent desire to better the condition of the numerous insolvent debtors , who had been confined in crowds ever since the memorable South Sea sclteme , twelve years

    before , and were about this time released in consequence of the bequest of his whole fortune for that purpose by a rich citizen of London . These unfortunate people had been too long exposed to the scenes of vice and misery which the horrid state of our prisons exhibited before Howard began his labours , to do more than spread disease and crime , and fell into hop **

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/38/