The Delmarva Peninsula separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Chesapeake Bay, which fact attracted pirates. The first act of piracy in MD was committed in 1635 by Wm Claiborne who was a member of the council of Virginia. He had established a settlement and trading post on Kent Island which was a part of Virginia at the time. But when King Charles I granted a charter to George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) the map was redrawn to include Kent Island as Maryland territory! Claiborne didn't like this one bit! He refused to relinquish his claim to the island and sent him men to raid a Maryland fur trading post on Palmer Island (which is now called Garret Island) and even attacked Maryland ships in the Chesapeake Bay. Claiborne's rebellion eventually led to the Maryland Assembly charging him with "grevious crimes of pyracie and murther." Were you aware of any of this?