But after the first idyllic year or so there set in a small, constant friction.

So fast did the Maryland colonists arrive that soon there was pressure of population beyond those first purchased bounds.

The more thoughtful among the Indians may well have taken alarm lest their villages and hunting-grounds might not endure these inroads.

Ere long the English in Maryland were placing "centinells" over fields where men worked, and providing penalties for those who sold the savages firearms.
But at no time did young Maryland suffer the Indian woes that had vexed young Virginia.
Nor did Maryland escape the clash of interests which beset the beginnings of representative assemblies in all proprietary provinces.
The second, like the first, Lord Baltimore, was a believer in kings and aristocracies, in a natural division of human society into masters and men.

His effort was to plant intact in Maryland a feudal order.