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  2. Chesapeake Colonies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. History of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Maryland soon became one of the few predominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in North America. Maryland was also one of the key destinations where the government sent tens of thousands of English convicts punished by sentences of transportation. Such punishment persisted until the Revolutionary War.

  4. Colonial families of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    (1605 – 31675) politician, peer and lawyer, first proprietor of Maryland: Leonard Calvert (1606 – 1647) first proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland: Phillip Calvert (governor) (c. 1626 - c. 1682), fifth Governor of Maryland Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637 – 1715) English peer and colonial administrator

  5. Southern Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Map of the colonies with the proclamation line of 1763 shown in red. The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, [1] the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into North and South Carolina), and the Province of Georgia.

  6. Mason–Dixon line - Wikipedia

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    The conflict became more of an issue when settlement extended into the interior of the colonies. In 1732, the Proprietary Governor of Maryland, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, signed a provisional agreement with William Penn's sons, which drew a line somewhere in between and renounced the Calvert claim to Delaware. But later, Lord ...

  7. Great Wagon Road - Wikipedia

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    A map published by Tracey and Dern shows a road, referred to as the "Manor" Monocacy Road, continuing south on Old Frederick Rd to Frederick. The map, however, shows the "German" Monocacy Road (to the Opequon Settlement at Winchester) turning onto Rocky Ridge Rd and continuing as described below. [21] Lewistown, Maryland (estab. 1841)

  8. Penn–Calvert boundary dispute - Wikipedia

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    1732 map of Maryland [13] The cupola of the New Castle Court House was used as the center of the Twelve Mile Circle; the boundary Commissions met here numerous times over the years. The discovery that the Twelve Mile Circle did not actually intersect with the 40th parallel, and that the parallel was actually north of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ...

  9. Province of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    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.