By Force, Maryland Takes Kent Island, Part 1

On today's episode, Maryland decides to end the dispute over Kent Island by forcefully taking it from Virginia. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalCP Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.historical.context/ Read the Early Relations Between Maryland and Virginia by John Latane: https://www.thearkandthedove.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Early-Relations-Between-Maryland-and-Virginia.pdf More on Leonard Calvert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Calvert Leonard Calvert image By Florence Mackubin (1857–1918) - Maryland Archives Online http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000100/000198/html/msa00198.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33660225 Read Virginia in 1637, Part 1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242421.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A55ff703dfef635568a6bfcd47c33b83c Read Virginia in 1637, Part 2: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242439.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A502334a29d8fa46442087cd3b97c4bd5 Read Virginia in 1637, Part 3: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242461.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A62aa9f4168e7d7c80e708c75692a4f6f Read the 1637-1638 House of Burgesses Journal: https://archive.org/details/journalsofhousb1619virg/page/56/mode/2up Read Virginia 1636-38: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242533.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A94872274c885014f42ed78aa9d31b1b6 Read Virginia in 1638: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242560.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Adce0d76fbad11a1857265bfa2d7454da Read Calvert Names Evelin Commander of Kent Island: http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000003/html/am3--59.html Read Cecil Calvert’s petition: http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000003/html/am3--68.html More resources for Virginia 1638-39: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4242573.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A58a6f4b38591efd4782f68894960a95f Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/