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FIRST NEWSPAPER. 393
fighting, whooping, hallowing, swearing, cursing, wrestling, horse racing and abundance
of wickedness and immoralities, and notwithstanding, that upon application made to
former Governors of the province or council, several orders for suppressing the said evils
have been published, yet in contempt of government have the same been continued, and
rather grows worse. Wherefore the humble request of the said people that some effectual
measure may for the future be taken for suppressing the said evils as in your wisdom you
shall see meet."
Upon receipt of which the governor and council passed the following
■order:
"It being thought reasonable the said people in their request should be gratified and
enjoy his majesty's royal protection, it was considered what may be the most effectual
means to protect the said people in their said peaceable yearly meetings. And resolved
and ordered that no booth be set up or any liquors sold within two miles of either of the
said meeting houses, except at a licensed ordinary, and that no person whatsoever presume to make any disturbance by wrestling or horse racing, or using any other sports or
exercise by which any annoyance may be given the said people, called Quakers."
This order of council it seems did not cure the evils complained of,
and upon the renewal of complaints in 1725, the legislature interposed, and
sought by legal penalties to protect them in the quiet enjoyment of their
religious observances. Indeed, considering the strong opposition made by
the Quakers to the Established Church, there was more forbearance towards
them than the temper of that age would lead us to expect. Their scruples
on the subject of oaths were so far respected that, by a law of this year (1725),
their affirmation of allegiance was accepted as the equivalent of an oath; and
we have found no instance of any serious grievance or infringement on their
peculiar tenets, unless their contribution of forty pounds of tobaoco per poll
in common with every one else, to the support of the Established Church, be
so considered.
At this session of the legislature, all that portion of the south side of
Patapsco river, which was in 1698 added to Baltimore county, was now
restored to Anne Arundel county.
Governor Charles Calvert died, and in November, 1726, Lord Baltimore
appointed his brother Benedict Leonard Calvert in his place. He was a
member of Parliament for Harwich, but presided at the first session of the
assembly on the 10th of October, 1727. In 1728, Lord Baltimore appointed
another brother, Edward Henry Calvert, commissary general and president
of the council.
The year 1727 deserves especial remembrance in the history of Maryland,
from the fact that in it was printed the first newspaper published in the
province.1 It was called the Maryland Gazette, and was published at Annapolis.
1 It was the sixth in the provinces. The others Condition-'of Granting of Lands in Maryland,
were the Boston News-Letter, weekly, from 1704 says: " The proprietaryship was taken from
to 1776; the Gazette in Boston, and the Mercury Lord Baltimore on account of his religion, by
in Philadelphia, in 1719 ; the New England Cou- King William and Queen Mary. It was re-
rier, 'started by James Franklin, in Boston, in marked, at this time, that there was a printing
1721, and the Gazette, in New York, in 1725. press in this colony for many years, and that
Mr. Charles 'Browning, in his Abstract of the none of the others had one."
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000420 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | FIRST NEWSPAPER. 393 fighting, whooping, hallowing, swearing, cursing, wrestling, horse racing and abundance of wickedness and immoralities, and notwithstanding, that upon application made to former Governors of the province or council, several orders for suppressing the said evils have been published, yet in contempt of government have the same been continued, and rather grows worse. Wherefore the humble request of the said people that some effectual measure may for the future be taken for suppressing the said evils as in your wisdom you shall see meet." Upon receipt of which the governor and council passed the following ■order: "It being thought reasonable the said people in their request should be gratified and enjoy his majesty's royal protection, it was considered what may be the most effectual means to protect the said people in their said peaceable yearly meetings. And resolved and ordered that no booth be set up or any liquors sold within two miles of either of the said meeting houses, except at a licensed ordinary, and that no person whatsoever presume to make any disturbance by wrestling or horse racing, or using any other sports or exercise by which any annoyance may be given the said people, called Quakers." This order of council it seems did not cure the evils complained of, and upon the renewal of complaints in 1725, the legislature interposed, and sought by legal penalties to protect them in the quiet enjoyment of their religious observances. Indeed, considering the strong opposition made by the Quakers to the Established Church, there was more forbearance towards them than the temper of that age would lead us to expect. Their scruples on the subject of oaths were so far respected that, by a law of this year (1725), their affirmation of allegiance was accepted as the equivalent of an oath; and we have found no instance of any serious grievance or infringement on their peculiar tenets, unless their contribution of forty pounds of tobaoco per poll in common with every one else, to the support of the Established Church, be so considered. At this session of the legislature, all that portion of the south side of Patapsco river, which was in 1698 added to Baltimore county, was now restored to Anne Arundel county. Governor Charles Calvert died, and in November, 1726, Lord Baltimore appointed his brother Benedict Leonard Calvert in his place. He was a member of Parliament for Harwich, but presided at the first session of the assembly on the 10th of October, 1727. In 1728, Lord Baltimore appointed another brother, Edward Henry Calvert, commissary general and president of the council. The year 1727 deserves especial remembrance in the history of Maryland, from the fact that in it was printed the first newspaper published in the province.1 It was called the Maryland Gazette, and was published at Annapolis. 1 It was the sixth in the provinces. The others Condition-'of Granting of Lands in Maryland, were the Boston News-Letter, weekly, from 1704 says: " The proprietaryship was taken from to 1776; the Gazette in Boston, and the Mercury Lord Baltimore on account of his religion, by in Philadelphia, in 1719 ; the New England Cou- King William and Queen Mary. It was re- rier, 'started by James Franklin, in Boston, in marked, at this time, that there was a printing 1721, and the Gazette, in New York, in 1725. press in this colony for many years, and that Mr. Charles 'Browning, in his Abstract of the none of the others had one." |
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