Showing posts with label religious freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious freedom. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Coltons Point settled in 1634 - Oldest chartered community in Colonial America - Check out the Fascinating History of St. Clements Island, Coltons Point, and Southern Maryland


Some of us cannot get enough of history, and we know the history we read is not complete, is biased, maybe fabricated, and often contains little resemblance to truth.  Actually most historians try but they have an outline or agenda that distorts the truth.

We at the Coltons Point Times have no vested interest in Southern Maryland history other than wanting it to be complete, factual, and not boring.


Thus, we have produced a series of fascinating stories about the prehistory and history of this quite sacred area, and where possible, have filled in the missing pieces from earlier works.

Submissions of the material to the St. Clements museum and other historians has failed to generate any response so you be the judge on whether our findings better explain our history.  Here are the stories published to date in the Coltons Point Times and links to them.


Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History





Histories Mysteries - The Voyage of the Ark and the Dove


Histories Mysteries - The Landing at St. Clements Island in 1634

https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html


St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Interrupted History


St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 Ame4rican Colonial History


St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History





Scenes from Coltons Point


The Miracle of St. Clements Island


Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims Progress in Coltons Point


CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines



Histories Mysteries - The Story of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island



Histories Mysteries - St. Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland

Sunday, June 30, 2019

In honor of our Nation's Independence here is the contribution Coltons Point and St. Clements Island made to our Colonial History - Religious Freedom


Maryland and the nation owe a great deal to the brave colonists who ventured across the Atlantic in 1633 and landed on St. Clements Island in early 1634. St. Clements Manor, established within a couple of years, remains the oldest, continually settled chartered community in colonial America.


The following series of articles gives the latest research and solves the enduring mysteries about the colonial days in England and Southern Maryland giving a fascinating glimpse into the lives and politics of the colonial era.


Some of us cannot get enough of history, and we know the history we read is not complete, is biased, maybe fabricated, and often contains little resemblance to truth.  Actually most historians try but they have an outline or agenda that distorts the truth.

We at the Coltons Point Times have no vested interest in Southern Maryland history other than wanting it to be complete, factual, and not boring.


Thus, we have produced a series of fascinating stories about the prehistory and history of this quite sacred area, and where possible, have filled in the missing pieces from earlier works.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Where in the world is Coltons Point?
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2006/10/where-in-world-is-coltons-point.html



Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Histories Mysteries - The Journey of the Ark and the Dove
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2009/09/histories-mysteries-journey-of-ark-and.html




Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Histories Mysteries - Next King of England (Prince William) Shares St. Clements Manor, Maryland Bloodline
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/01/histories-mysteries-next-king-of.html


Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Histories Mysteries - The Landing at St. Clement's Island in 1634
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/04/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html





Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History


St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Interrupted History


St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 American Colonial History


St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History




Scenes from Coltons Point


The Miracle of St. Clements Island


Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims Progress in Coltons Point


CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines



Histories Mysteries - The Story of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island



Histories Mysteries - St. Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland

Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Thank you to CPT Readers for 12 years of tolerating and supporting us!

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 Without Readers there is no News and no challenge to find Truth.


For those of you who never heard of Coltons Point, Maryland, which is about 99% last check, I wanted to mention our town as part of a tribute to you.  From November of 2016 until October of 2017, a twelve-month period, the CPT broke through the ONE MILLION readers barrier with 1,003,681 according to Google statistics.


The latest count on readers since we started was over 3.5 million last time we checked.  However, one million in twelve months is not bad.  This only counts identifiable web sites and earlier statistical analysis showed there could be an additional 40% from unidentified readers.


What makes this interesting is that to this day we have never allow an advertisement to run in the newspaper, never collected a single email address to sell to the world, and we allow anonymous comments to protect the readers.


As for Coltons Point, it is a village of about 300 people on the banks of the Potomac River about ten miles from the Chesapeake Bay.  The Potomac is almost seven miles wide at this point.  Just offshore sits St. Clement’s Island, the third landing site for colonists to America after Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.


Here they landed in 1634, 384 years ago, but unlike the other landings, this area did not disappear into obscurity by the end of the 1600’s.  So today Coltons Point is the oldest continually occupied chartered community in the history of Colonial America.


It was the first territory in the world to guarantee religious freedom, the first landing of Catholics in America, the first Jesuits in America, and the only colonial settlement to never fight with the Native Americans.


The charter granted to the Calvert family by the King of England gave them all the land from Southern Maryland to Philadelphia, and nearly to New York City.  So vast were the holdings that the land for our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., was given to the fledgling nation by the St. Clement’s manor owners.


Today it seems little has changed over time though we are just 60 miles from the nation’s capital.  We have no street lights, no stop lights, no schools, no government of any kind, no cops, no churches, no sidewalks, no sewers, no water, no road drainage, no mall, no fast food, no diners, no hotels, no EMS, no fire company, no gas stations, and no fiber optics.

Many Bald Eagles live in Coltons Point
Most cell phones do not work because the only cell phone tower several miles away was completed just a couple of years ago.  Our phone system was installed in the 1950’s.  For most of 400 years the people here were watermen harvesting the fresh oysters, crabs, eels, and fresh and saltwater fish since we are part of the Atlantic Ocean tidal basin with ocean tides and salt water mixing with the fresh water.


The Potomac River is seven miles wide and nearly 100 feet deep meaning it flows both directions at once during high tide.  Sharks, submarines, and aircraft carriers have passed by and British troops have captured this area a couple of times.  This is the area where John Wilkes Booth disappeared for a week after killing Lincoln and it is a place of miracles, mysteries, and survival.  From the riverbank you can see across to Virginia to the birthplace of George Washington and birthplace of Robert E. Lee.


In fact, you should read the articles I have written about the mysterious past of Coltons Point and St. Clement’s Island (links at end of this story).


Ironically, not a single reader of the Coltons Point Times comes from Coltons Point.  However, the thousands of readers do come from the USA, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, India, Italy, Australia, Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia, a total of over 100 countries of the world.


So, thank you and I hope you tell your friends about the Coltons Point Times somewhere in America because we do not allow advertising nor do we advertise.

Jim Putnam, Publisher


Google numbers for the recent twelve months.

Coltons Point Times Readers

November 2016
Pageviews: 39,590

December 2016
Pageviews: 31,076

January 2017
Pageviews: 122,125

February 2017
Pageviews: 87,047

March 2017
Pageviews: 114,094

April 2017
Pageviews: 88,289

May 2017
Pageviews: 100,146

June 2017
Pageviews: 119,442

July 2017
Pageviews: 52,623

August 2017
Pageviews: 93,873

September 2017
Pageviews: 99,862

October 2017
Pageviews: 55,514

Total 12 months                   1,003,681
(November – October)

       
Article links about Southern Maryland history.



Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History


Histories Mysteries - The Voyage of the Ark and the Dove

Histories Mysteries - The Landing at St. Clements Island in 1634
https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html

St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of Interrupted History

St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 American Colonial History

St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History

Scenes from Coltons Point

The Miracle of St. Clements Island

Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims Progress in Coltons Point

CPT Monarch Factoid - King's Stuff Headlines

Histories Mysteries - The Story of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island

Histories Mysteries - St. Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland