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Maryland developed into a plantation colony by the 18th century. In 1700 there were about 25,000 people and by 1750 that had grown more than 5 times to 130,000. By 1755, about 40% of Maryland's population was black. [50] Maryland planters also made extensive use of indentured servants and penal labor.
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia , and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies .
United States historic place Mount Clare U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark Baltimore City Landmark Mount Clare, December 2011 Location Carroll Park, Baltimore, Maryland Coordinates 39°16′44″N 76°38′37″W / 39.27889°N 76.64361°W / 39.27889; -76.64361 Area 0 acres (0 ha) Built 1763 Architectural style Georgian NRHP reference No ...
Dr. Thomas Gerard [note 1] (1608–1673) was a prominent manor owner in colonial Maryland, which was an English and later British colony in North America. [1] Born into a noble Catholic family in England, he arrived Maryland in 1638, and was granted 1,030 acres by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, which he named "Saint Clement’s Manor".
St. Mary's City (also known as Historic St. Mary's City) is a former colonial town that was founded in March 1634, as Maryland's first European settlement and capital. [5] It is now a state-run historic area, which includes a reconstruction of the original colonial settlement and a designated living history venue and museum complex.
The Ark was a 400-ton English merchant ship hired in 1633 by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore to bring roughly 140 English colonists and their equipment and supplies to the new colony and Province of Maryland, one of the original Thirteen Colonies of British North America on the Atlantic Ocean eastern seaboard.
Maryland began as a proprietary colony of the Catholic Calvert family, the Lords Baltimore under a royal charter, and its first eight governors were appointed by them. When the Catholic King of England, James II, was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution, the Calverts lost their charter and Maryland became a royal colony.
After Calvert died in April 1632, the charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin Terra Mariae) was granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. [18] Some historians viewed this as compensation for his father having been stripped of his title of Secretary of State in 1625 after announcing his Roman Catholicism.