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early settlers of Herring Bay beginning in1650, colonists and plantation owners [25] [26] John Chew Thomas (1764 – 1836) politician, member of the House of Representatives for Maryland's 2nd district
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.
As did other colonies, Maryland used the headright system to encourage people to bring in new settlers. Led by Leonard Calvert , Cecil Calvert's younger brother, the first settlers departed from Cowes , on the Isle of Wight , on November 22, 1633, aboard two small ships, the Ark and the Dove .
In the period following Oliver Cromwell's fall in England, the colony grew and transitioned to a slave economy. It saw the beginnings of industry and urbanization. At the turn of the eighteenth century, King William's War (1689–1697) and Queen Anne's War (1702–1714) brought Maryland into depression again as European demand for tobacco decreased sharply.
Around 1715, the first British settlers began building farms and plantations in the area. [1]: 18–19 These earliest settlers were English or Scottish immigrants from other portions of Maryland, German settlers moving down from Pennsylvania, or Quakers who came to settle on land granted to a convert named James Brooke in what is now Brookeville.
William Claiborne (also spelled "Clayborne", b. c. 1600 – d. c. 1677) [1] was an English surveyor and early settler in the colonies/provinces of Virginia and Maryland and around the Chesapeake Bay.
On May 6, 1686, leaders from the Annamessex and other Pocomoke people, headquartered at Askiminokonson met with the Land Office Commissioners of Maryland. They reported that British squatters from Accomac Shire , including by Charles Scarborough , had encroached upon their lands and British-owned cattle were destroying their crops. [ 2 ]
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715) was an English peer and colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.