Excerpt from The Library of American Biography, Vol. 9
Besides the facts derived from the general histories, which touch upon the topics embraced in the following memoir, the materials have been drawn chiefly from Bozman"s History of Maryland, McMahon"s Historical View of the Government of Maryland, Bacon"s Laws of Maryland, Smith"s Virginia, and especially from the manuscript letters of Father White.
Owing to the early destruction of the state records, these materials are not so abundant as might have been desired. Enough, however, remains to give us the "form and pressure of the time." A few marked incidents often exhibit a clearer view of the conditions of any period, than a multiplicity of minute details. For this reason, the writer has given frequent extracts from the most interesting documents which are now accessible, that the reader may thus obtain a more vivid idea of the state of things, the modes of thought, the habits and manners, which then existed.
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