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(d 1655) early settler, secretary, provincial justice [47] [48] Thomas Hatton (1642 – 1675) early settler [49] Howard. Baltimore County, Howard County. Matthew Howard Sr: early settler John Eager Howard (1752 – 1827) soldier, plantation owner and politician, Howard County is named after him [50] George Howard (Governor of Maryland)
When Europeans began to settle in Maryland in the early 17th century, the main tribes included the Nanticoke on the Eastern Shore, and the Iroquoian speaking Susquehannock. Early exposure to new European diseases brought widespread fatalities to the Native Americans, as they had no immunity to them. Communities were disrupted by such losses.
Landing initially on St. Clement's Island on March 25, 1634, Maryland's first settlers would establish their colony around St. Mary's City. Where they successfully grew enough food to prevent starvation and to export back to Britain. [1] In these early days, the majority of settlers were indentured servants. [2]
A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey, 1685 map of the Chesapeake region by Christopher Browne. The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.
The Rockville Railroad Station in Rockville, Maryland in 2017 Summit Avenue in Gaithersburg, Maryland in the early 1900s The Montgomery County Fair in Rockville, Maryland in 1917. By 1776, there was a growing movement to form a new, strong U.S. federal government, with each of the Thirteen Colonies retaining the authority to govern its local ...
Early German settlers also later established the German Society of Maryland in 1783 in order to foster the German language and German culture in Baltimore. [ 21 ] Mount Clare Mansion , known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore.
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]
He reported the conditions to Lord Baltimore, who as early as 1721 had contemplated extending the northern boundary of Maryland on the west side of the Susquehanna to the northern limits of the fortieth degree of latitude. (See Maryland–Pennsylvania boundary dispute) Gradually a few settlers from Maryland moved to the Conojohela Valley.