Misc. Notes
My mother (Helen Porter Wrightso) passed down a note that “Mary Lee” ?? told her that two Covington brothers came to Virginia through Maryland on 2nd crossing Lord Calvert from England.
I did a search and found this possible as...Calvert received a Charter from
Charles I of England for the new colony of
Maryland, to be named for the Queen Consort
Henrietta Maria (wife of King Charles). This was shortly after the death of his father, the
First Baron Baltimore, who had long sought the charter to found a colony in the mid-Atlantic area to serve as a refuge for English Roman Catholics.
The first expedition consisted of two ships that had formerly belonged to Baltimore's father George, "
Ark" and "
Dove".
[14] They departed from
Gravesend in Kent with 128 settlers on board. They were chased and forced to return by the British
Royal Navy so that the settlers would take an oath of allegiance to the King as required by law. They then sailed in October 1632, for the
Isle of Wight to pick up more settlers. There, two Jesuit priests (including
Father Andrew White) and nearly 200 more settlers boarded before the ships set out across the Atlantic Ocean.