Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland

Abstract

Soon after the ceremony, White fell ill and remained sick until the end of the winter.By this time, his work (and that of the other Jesuits) among the Indians was well known in England and America.Roger Williams, in 1643, wrote that "some ... boast of the Jesuits in Canada and Mary land" converting the Indians.4 2 While Father White was converting and healing Indians in Mary land, the political upheavals of the Interregnum began in England.Virginia and Maryland obtained information about the turmoil on January 30, 1642, when the Court of Northampton County, Virginia, seized two letters from William Webb to