Page:Augustine Herrman, beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade, merchant of New Amsterdam and first lord of Bohemia manor in Maryland (1941).djvu/101

 standing Given at Saint Marys under the greate seale of our said Province of Maryland the ffourteenthfourteenth [sic] day of January in the nyne and twentieth yeare of our Dominion over the said Province of Mary-land Annoque Domini One thousand Six Hundred and Sixty. Witnes our Deare brother Philip Calvert Esqr our Lieutenant of our said Province of Maryland.

In a memorandum or “Journall” of the development of Bohemia Manor composed in 1681, Herrman speaks of writing to Lord Baltimore as early as the summer of 1659, proposing to make a map of Maryland and on September 18th of that year he says that Baltimore accepted and recommended the granting of five thousand acres of land. Inasmuch as this date is before he left New Amsterdam and a month prior to his letter to Peter Stuyvesant recommending a map of the territory, it seems highly probable that Herrman may have confused the date and had reference to 1660 instead of 1659. On the other hand his coming to Maryland as an envoy of Stuyvesant in Oct. 1659 may have been a clever way of sidetracking the Dutch governor; a view that is not at all improbable in the light of the Rhode Island Affair. Herrman seems to have been of a too passionate nature to have overlooked the incident so passively. If indeed Herrman did take advantage of this trip to Maryland to retaliate against Peter Stuyvesant, it can certainly be said that he was successful. Yet if he was determined to go into the service of Lord Baltimore prior to his journey to Maryland, as his Memorandum would seem to imply, why did he uphold the cause of the Dutch so eloquently? On the other