Need for an assembly to settle matters in a legal way.
f. First Assembly—1635.
Matters taken up—Boundaries,
Military protection,
Claiborne trouble,
Framing laws to be sent to Cecilius Calvert, the proprietor in England.
g. Sending back these laws; also letters, and products, as well as the two Indian arrows required by the king.
An interesting account of the arrival and departure of the trading ships can be given. They came from November to January, and the captains were entertained at the different plantations. They brought new settlers, indentured servants, more slaves, letters from England, news of the world.
h. Trouble in the colony.
Claiborne on Kent Island.