Editing Dark Tides:Maryland (section)

==Annapolis==

Founded in 1649, Annapolis stands on the Severn River, and became the capital of Maryland in 1694. Annapolis has become very wealthy through the slave trade, and is noted for its affluent and cultivated society. Other important trades include oyster packing, boatbuilding, and sail-making. It has an influential newspaper, the Maryland Gazette, and a theater — a sure sign of its status as a hub of culture.

As the capital, this is where most of the intrigue happens. People of wealth and influence in Maryland, even if they live elsewhere, have a presence in Annapolis, in the form of trusted retainers if nothing else. And occasionally, these people will have a need of a ship and crew.

===Jonas and Anna Green===

Jonas Green is the second publisher of Maryland Gazette and a former protégé of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Gazette's masthead reads as follows:

"Annapolis, Printed by Jonas Green at his Printing Office on Charles Street; where all persons may be supplied with this Gazette at twelve shillings, six pence a year, and Advertisements of moderate length are inserted for 5 shillings the First Week and 1 shilling each time thereafter; and long ones in proportion."

Money is sometimes hard to come by, so Green sometimes trades an ad or a subscription for supplies. His wife, Anne Catherine Hoof Green, also helps to make ends meet by selling homemade chocolates at the post office.

===Dr. Alexander Hamilton===

Hamilton was born near Edinburgh. His father was Dr. William Hamilton, professor of divinity and principal of the University of Edinburgh. He was raised and educated as a member of the Scottish gentry. He emigrated to Maryland in 1738 and quickly set up his medical practice in Annapolis.

This very year, Hamilton founded The Tuesday Club. This Annapolis-based social club includes prominent men of the colonial Maryland community as both members and guests. If you need a meeting with a person of note, Dr. Hamilton can arrange it – if he can be convinced to.