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Within a generation of the first Maryland settlers' landing at St. Clement's Island, they pushed the frontiers of the colony north and west toward the Potomac and Port Tobacco rivers. The English developed a small village about 1634 on the east side of the Port Tobacco tributary. It became the nucleus for trade and government.
Port Tobacco Historic District is a national historic district in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. It is located along both sides of Chapel Point Road immediately south of Maryland Route 6 . It includes five surviving 18th- and 19th-century buildings; four have been privately restored as single-family residences.
William Matthews Sr.'s ancestry traces to the English landed gentry, and includes Thomas Matthews—an early settler of the Maryland colony who was granted 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of land in Port Tobacco, Maryland, by the Lords Calvert. His mother descended from Captain James Neale, who settled in the Maryland colony in the mid-seventeenth century.
(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) (1789 – 1846) 22nd governor of Maryland Benjamin Chew Howard (1791 – 1872 ...
The Potapoco were a tribe of Native Americans living in southern Maryland at the time of English colonization in the 17th century. The Potapoca were among the Atlantic coastal tribes speaking Algonquian languages, and they inhabited the area along what the English colonists later called the Port Tobacco River. They called their settlement ...
St. Thomas Manor (1741) is a historic home and Catholic church complex located near Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland.Known as St. Ignatius Church and Cemetery, the manor house complex is the oldest continuously occupied Jesuit residence in the world.
In 1644, as both another Anglo-Powhatan war neared its end and English religious wars spread and nearly obliterated the Maryland colony, English occupied the town as a protective outpost. [citation needed] By 1675, Susquehannock displaced by English settlers had taken over Kittamaqundi's agricultural fields and built a 180 foot long palisade ...
Menard, Russell R. "The tobacco industry in the Chesapeake colonies, 1617-1730: An interpretation." in The Atlantic Slave Trade (Routledge, 2022) pp. 377-445. Ragsdale, Bruce A. "George Washington, the British tobacco trade, and economic opportunity in prerevolutionary Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 97.2 (1989): 132-162.