Hello Lee, Thank you very much for your informative history on the migration of people from Virginia to Providence! I was wondering if perhaps this could also explain why other families migrated from Virginia to other parts of Maryland besides Anne Arundel County, namely, the Quakers who formed Tucahoe, Betty's Cove, and expecially Third Haven Meeting house in Talbot County in the 1600s? Thanks again, Dee Horney Gabler Pasadena, Maryland <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chesapeake/">Dee's Chesapeake Genealogy</A> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chesapeake/ In a message dated 7/27/02 12:34:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, leeg@erols.com writes: > > A little history here, the migration of people from Virginia to > "Providence" aka Anne Arundel Co MD occured in the era of the English Civil > war. > Governor Berkley of VA was a loyal supporter of the Crown (King Charles) > and certainly did not recognize Cromwell..Berkely was also strong in his > beliefgs for the state church (of England). So in general most of the > people in VA (lower Norfolk County in particular) who supported Cromwell, > were "Puritans" or "Independents" and were among the settlers who came to > Anne Arundel Co. ca 1650-1651. One has to realize that among the Puritan > leaders, William Durrand, Edward Lloyd and Cornelius Lloyd were fined and > persecuted in VA for preacher counter to the church of England and were > among the leaders of the settlers that came to Anne Arundle Co. at the > invitation of Gov William Stone. As things heated up with Cromwell in > England there was fall out in MD with the "puritans" in Anne Arundel Co > rebelling against the "rule/ownership" of the Lord Baltimore (a Papist) and > Wm Stone.. I think the Battle of the Severn was basically fall out of the > English Civil war. It appears from what I have read, that with the > influence of Quaker missionaries in MD in the mid 1650s, several of the > "puritans" or independents adopted the Quaker beliefs. Of course the > "Puritans" in power at the time seemed to be as intolerant of other beliefs > and Gov Berkley was intolerant of them... So I would say it would be hard > to determine when some of the MD Quaker families became Quakers, it may > have been after they arrived in MD and as the reign of Cromwell was in > decline or over.. of course within 40 years MD adopted the CoE as the state > church..more of less. So at that point (ca. 1690s) it seems people were > either CoE, Catholic (particular in Southern MD), or Quakers... > Lee > >