MARYLAND COLONY – Bishop John Carroll of the Maryland Colony hath paid in hand seventy-five pounds current money to Colonel William Deakins, Jr. for a plot of land which previously lay barren. Blessed by the Lord, the good bishop encountered this unoccupied territory, devoid both of people and prior historie, and pledged himself to the magnanimous task of its conversion. 

Bishop John Carroll and his men broke ground on the site that will be an illustrious, pure institution for the education of the youth in two years’ time. It shall be known as the George-town Academy, atop a hill overlooking the Patowmack River in the colony of Maryland. Through divine providence and Catholic virtue, the bishop has begun to transform the savage, unforgiving landscape. He has vowed to bend the land to the will of God and of European man, striking the harshness from the soil to allow goode men of the Catholic faith to become learned.

The legacy of the bishop will be his benevolent seizure and conversion of the virgin land, which lay fallow since the dawn of creation.