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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 ...
Website. www.mdhistory.org. The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), [6] founded on March 1, 1844, [1] is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage".
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 ...
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.
History of slavery in Maryland. Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, to its end after the Civil War. While Maryland developed similarly to neighboring Virginia, slavery declined in Maryland as an institution earlier, and it had the largest free ...
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.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English 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 Calvert ...
The Maryland Historical Trust is an agency of Maryland Department of Planning and serves as the Maryland State Historic Preservation Office. [1] The agency serves to assist in research, conservation, and education, of Maryland's historical and cultural heritage. [1] The agency is responsible for the management of thousands of historical sites ...