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The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England in 1498. After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George ...
Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), was an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, settled in its new capitol, St. Mary's City, Maryland. She was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law. She was a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and ...
Maryland. Washington, D.C. The Province of Maryland[1] was an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 [2] until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies that joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain. In 1781, Maryland was the 13th signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
Margaret Brent. (c 1601 – c 1671) first woman in the English colonies to appear before court [9][10] Mary Brent. early settler and plantation owner, sister of Margaret [11] Giles Brent. (c1600 – 1672) Catholic early settler, [12] married Mary Kittamaquad, the daughter of the Piscataway Tayac [13][14] Brice.
William Claiborne. Cheney Clow. Colonial families of Maryland. Benjamin Contee. Thomas Contee. Ebenezer Cooke (poet) Thomas Copley. Thomas Cornwallis. James Craik.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English nobleman / peer, politician, and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland.Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of overseas colonies in Avalon (Newfoundland) (off the eastern coast of the North America continent), along with Maryland after the 1632 death of his father, George ...
Maryland became a prime tobacco exporting colony in the mid-Atlantic and, for a time, a refuge for Catholic settlers, as George Calvert had hoped. [107] Under the rule of the Lords Baltimore, thousands of British Catholics emigrated to Maryland, establishing some of the oldest Catholic communities in what later became the United States. [107]
The State of Maryland began as the Province of Maryland, an English settlement in North America founded in 1632 as a proprietary colony. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632), wished to create a haven for his fellow English Catholics in the New World. After founding a colony in the Newfoundland called "Avalon", he convinced the King ...