Maryland

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**Founded in 1634.**
===The charter for the colony of Maryland was granted to George Calvert Baron of Baltimore. He died, however, before the colony was settled. His son, Cecil Calvert or more commonly know as Lord Baltimore, saw to it that the colony was settled. In 1633, the first group of settlers sailed for the colony led by Leonard Calvert, Cecil Calvert's younger brother**.Those are the founders of Maryland.** Read more: [] ===

10.Maryland and the Chesapeake region provided Europe with tobacco, beaver pelts, timber, and other "exotic novelties".
Timeline 1.1620 - Earliest appearance in Maryland of European objects in archeological context. 2.1629 - George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, sails from Newfoundland to Virginia. 3.1631 - Kent Island trading post and farming settlement established by William Claiborne, member of Virginia council. 4.1632 - The Maryland Charter was granted. 5.1633 - The first group of settlers set sail for the new charter. 6.1634 - Founded by Lord Baltimore the second. 7.1649 - Toleration Act of. 8.1650 - Puritan Revolt. 9.1654 - Battle of the Severn. 10. 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified. 11.1786 - Annapolis Convention. 12.1787 - Reps went to the Constitutional Convention. __ ﻿ __ __ Read more: [] __

__ Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton were the representatives from Maryland who signed the Declaration of Independence. __ __ Read more : [] __

Trade with England and with English and European colonies around the Atlantic Ocean. Maryland and the Chesapeake region provided Europe with tobacco, beaver pelts, timber, and other "exotic novelties". In exchange, Marylanders received manufactured goods such as furniture, metalwares, glassware, cooking utensils, sewing notions, textiles, shoes, hats, clothing, pottery, and imported food stuffs (spices from the European colonies in the Caribbean, spirits, wine, sugar, etc.). Click here to read more

** Two major settlements in the colony of Maryland are Baltimore and Annapolis. Baltimore is named after Lord Baltimore the 1st. Annapolis is the capitolof the colony and now the state. **

The history of Maryland included only Native Americans until Europeans, starting with John Cabot in 1498, began exploring the area. The first settlements came in 1634 when the English arrived in significant numbers and created a permanent colony. George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. After George Calvert died in April 1632, the charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin Terra Mariae) was granted to his son, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. Some historians viewed this as compensation for his father's having been stripped of his title of Secretary of State in 1625 after announcing his Roman Catholicism. The colony was named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I.

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Lord Baltimore got land from King Charles the 1st and gave it to his son. His son could do whatever he wanted with the land. In 1649 the Toleration Act allowed Christians to worship whomever they wanted too. =//__ More about Lord Baltimore. __//=

** Death of Second Lord Baltimore: **
1675

Nationality and Background:
Sir George and his son Cecil were British subjects rewarded with land in the new world. George was a Secretary of State to King James I. He was at first rewarded with a title to land in Newfoundland. He later asked James I's son, Charles I, for title to land north of Virginia that would become [|Maryland]. This land was not signed over until after his death and was given to his son Cecil. The Calverts were Roman Catholic, a religion which most inhabitants of the New World were prejudiced against.