George Alsop

Alsop is remembered for a significant work on colonial Maryland with a title unusually long even by the standards of the seventeenth century: A Character of the Province of Mary-Land, wherein is Described in four distinct Parts, (Viz.)

Also a small Treatise on the wilde and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-Land, their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, & Religion.

[2] George Alsop appreciated the new colony, but at the end of his service to Thomas Stockett, he grew ill and returned to England.

Alsop's eagerness to praise every aspect of Maryland makes his work a permanent record of the psychology of advertising.

It also serves to a lesser extent as a reliable historical source of information for early Baltimore County, Maryland, and the then native Susquehannock.