Convoluted Politics, the Outsider John Harvey, Claiborne’s Merchant-Plantation Conquistador-London Investor Kent Island Commercial Venture, the King’s Contrasting Commissions and Reaction of Virginia Landowners, Fragmentation of the Planter Elites, Birth/Settlement of the Maryland Colony, and the 1635 Ouster of Royal Governor John Harvey: 1631-35

Enter Governor John Harvey:  the Outsider’s Baggage, Let’s Agree We Don’t like the Governor —Phase II: Anxious Planters (Craven 17th,196, Brenner, 129) & Dorset Commission:

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