Here they took supplies, being treated by Sir John Harvey (who had received a letter from the King) with "courtesy and humanity." Without long tarrying, for they were sick now for land of their own, they sailed on up the great bay, the Chesapeake.
Soon they reached the mouth of the Potomac--a river much greater than any of them, save shipmasters and mariners, had ever seen--and into this turned the Ark and the Dove.

After a few leagues of sailing up the wide stream, they came upon an islet covered with trees, leafless, for spring had hardly broken.

The ships dropped anchor; the boats were lowered; the people went ashore.

Here the Calverts claimed Maryland "for our Savior and for our Sovereign Lord the King of England," and here they heard Mass.

St.Clement's they called the island.
But it was too small for a home.