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Touring Maryland in the late 1600s
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- You can access the clips that are part of Tour the Growing Colony from markers on the map that are in yellow circles. After you click on the marker, select the phrase at the bottom of the box that offers you more information on the marker. The clips are part of the explanation.
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| Tour the Growing Colony | Prison of 1676 Marker | Video Caption: Punishments for the 17th century might feel seem harsh by today's standards. Two colonists talk about a man who has been sentenced to stand in the pillory for cheating his neighbors in business affairs. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | 1676 State House Marker | Video Caption: Lord Baltimore's judges heard important cases in St. Mary's City. Two people stand trial in St. Mary's City for stealing goods. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | Cordea's Hope Marker | Video Caption: Hear an explanation of the lines and spaces of the counting board. A historical interpreter shows how storehouse owners used a counting, or reckoning, board to figure out how much to charge for purchases. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | Cordea's Hope Marker | Video Caption: The owner adds up a purchase using the counter board. The shopkeeper adds up a purchase for a customer, to be paid in pounds of tobacco. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | Site of Smith's Ordinary Marker | Video Caption: Ordinaries like Smith's were needed for the flow of people in and out of the city. A group of St. Mary's residents meets at Smith's Ordinary for a bit of refreshment and a lot of gossip. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | Town Mill Marker | Video Caption: The colonists found it was easier to dry and grind their own corn using a mortar and pestle. A historical interpreter shows how colonists pounded corn into meal, using a mortar and pestle. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | St. Barbara's Marker | Video Caption: The economy of seventeenth century Maryland rested in the hands of the tobacco farmer. A historical interpreter playing the role of a plantation owner talks about the hard job of growing, processing, and shipping tobacco. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Tour the Growing Colony | Corn Fields Marker | Video Caption: Farming in Maryland was much different from that in England. A historical interpreter talks about the differences between farming in England and farming in the new colony - and the way he has had to adapt his techniques to plant in hillocks and till the ground by hand. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert :: Ask an Archaeologist | |||
| Ask an Expert | Question 1: How big was a house in early Maryland? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 2: Do you want to dig up everything at a site? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 3: What can you learn from archaeology that you can't learn from historical documents? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 4: Did the settlers make things or get them from somewhere else? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 5: Did the houses have many rooms? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 6: What do old bones tell you? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 7: Is archaeology just about digging things up? What happens to the stuff when you stop digging? | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 8: What did the colonists do with their trash | Dr. Henry Miller, Director of Research, Historic St. Mary's City answers this question. | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 9: What do you find the most of at an archaeological site? What don't you find much? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 10: Why is archaeology important? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 11: Why do you find so many broken things? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 12: Why does it matter where you find something? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 13: How do you know how deep to dig? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 14: What kinds of tools do archaeologists use to dig? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 15: How do you know where buildings were? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 16: How do you figure out what you've found? | Dr. Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert :: Ask a Colonist | |||
| Ask an Expert | Question 1: How do you pay for things? | Daniel Jenifer, Ordinary Proprietor, St. Mary's City, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 2: What kind of games can you play at an Ordinary? | Daniel Jenifer, Ordinary Proprietor, St. Mary's City, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 3: Where do you sleep at an Ordinary? | Daniel Jenifer, Ordinary Proprietor, St. Mary's City, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 4: What can you do at an ordinary? | Daniel Jenifer, Ordinary Proprietor, St. Mary's City, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 5: Why do you grow so much corn and tobacco? | Godiah Spray, Plantation Master, Spray Plantation Tobacco Barn, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 6: What do you have to do to take care of tobacco? | Godiah Spray, Plantation Master, Spray Plantation Tobacco Barn, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 7: How do you pack tobacco to ship to England? | Godiah Spray, Plantation Master, Spray Plantation Tobacco Barn, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 8: Where does a Catholic worship? | Godiah Spray, Plantation Master, Spray Plantation Tobacco Barn, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 9: What does a female indentured servant do? | Sibello Jackson, Indentured Servant, Spray Plantation Servant's House, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 10: Where can a non-Catholic worship? | Sibello Jackson, Indentured Servant, Spray Plantation Servant's House, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 11: What does a male hired worker do? | Frederick Johnson, Hired Hand, Spray Plantation Tobacco Fields, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 12: How do you cook without a stove? | Rebecca Spray, Plantation Mistress, Spray Plantation House, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 13: What is a "kitchen garden" and what do you grow in it? | Rebecca Spray, Plantation Mistress, Spray Plantation House, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 14: What do you do if someone gets sick? | Rebecca Spray, Plantation Mistress, Spray Plantation House, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 15: What might ships carry to trade with other colonies? | Richard Salisbury, Ship's Master's Mate, Shore of St. Mary's River, 1661 (played by a historical interpreter) | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 16: What have you learned from the native peoples? | Ann, Indentured Servant, St. Mary's City, 1634 | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 17: Why might an Indentured Servant come to Maryland? | Ann, Indentured Servant, St. Mary's City, 1634 | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 18: What do you think of living in a Witchott? | Ann, Indentured Servant, St. Mary's City, 1634 | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 19: Are you afraid of Indian attacks? | Ann, Indentured Servant, St. Mary's City, 1634 | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert :: Ask an Expert | |||
| Ask an Expert | Question 1: What did the colonists eat? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 2: How do you know what was in a colonial garden? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 3: What was a kitchen garden for? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 4: How much time did a housewife spend in her kitchen garden? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 5: What was grown in the kitchen garden in the different seasons | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 6: Where did colonists get seeds? Which plants grew the best? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 7: What kinds of plants were grown in a slave garden? | Molly Ridout, Director of Horticultural Programs, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 8: Did colonists cook right on the fire? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 9: What were some tools colonists used for cooking? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 10: How can you cook different things over the same fire? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 11: How did you wash dishes without a dishwasher? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 12: How did you wash clothes without a washer and drier? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 13: What kinds of things were slaves supposed to eat? | Eleanor Anderson, Foodways Education Program Coordinator, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 14: How do you pack tobacco to ship to England? | D.L. Smith, Tobacco Educational Docent, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 15: Why do some tobacco plants have flowers and others don't? | D.L. Smith, Tobacco Educational Docent, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 16: What do you do when tobacco is ready to harvest? | D.L. Smith, Tobacco Educational Docent, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 17: How do you get tobacco from the field to the ship? | D.L. Smith, Tobacco Educational Docent, Historic London Town | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert :: Ask a Historian | |||
| Ask an Expert | Question 1: What was the Act of Toleration? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 2: How was the Chesapeake Bay different in the 1600s than it is today? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 3: Was a child's life different than living today? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 4: What work did children do growing up in the 1600s? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 5: Were children captured to be slaves? What happened to them? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 6: Were children of Africans and whites made slaves? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 7: How did people become slaves? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 8: How old were the Africans captured to be slaves? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 9: What was an indentured servant? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 10: Were the people in Jamestown, Virginia different than the people of Maryland? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 11: What did Maryland learn from the Virginia colonies? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 12: How long did it take slavery to become a law in Maryland? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 13: How long did people live in the 1600s in Maryland? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 14: Were there many children in the Maryland colony? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 15: Why did plantation owners want slaves? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 16: How long did slavery last? Was it the same when it began as when it ended? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 17: What gave Marylanders the idea of owning and using slaves? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 18: How did the role of Africans change in early Maryland? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 19: What was the difference between being a slave and an indentured servant? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 20: Was there a starving time in Maryland like in other colonies? Why? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 21: Why did the colonists choose to land at St. Mary's? | Dr. David Terry, Research Specialist, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 22: What happened to the Ark and the Dove? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 23: Did the colonists have a flag? Where did the Maryland flag come from? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 24: Who were the Jesuits? What did they do in Maryland? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 25: What did the first map of Maryland look like? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 26: Did Maryland and Pennsylvania have any border disagreements? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 27: Why do Maryland and Delaware have a straight line for a border? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 28: Were the economies of Maryland and New England different? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 29: Were the people who lived in Maryland and Massachusetts different? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 30: Were the people who came to Maryland religious like the Massachusetts Pilgrams? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 31: How did people know where the borders of Maryland were? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 32: Did Maryland ever argue about its borders with other colonies? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 33: What is a proprietor? How did Lord Baltimore become one? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
| Ask an Expert | Question 34: Were there ever any battles over land in early Maryland? | Dr. Edward Papenfuse, State Archivist & Commissioner of Land Patents, Maryland State Archives | Watch Clip Read Transcript |
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