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St. Mary's City was the largest settlement in Maryland and the seat of colonial government until 1695. Because Anglicanism had become the official religion in Virginia, a band of Puritans in 1649 left for Maryland; they founded Providence (now called Annapolis). [25] In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government.
Mary Kittamaquund (c. 1634 – c. 1654 or 1700) was a Piscataway woman who played a role in the establishment of the Maryland colony.The daughter of the Piscataway chieftain Kittamaquund, she was sent by her father as an adoptee to be raised by the English governor.
Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), was an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, settled in its new capitol, St. Mary's City, Maryland.She was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the common law.
Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615 /1616 [1] – 23 July 1649) [1] was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour [2] by his second wife Anne Philipson, [3] and wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland in 1634.
St. Mary's College of Maryland is located on the original site of Maryland's first colony, St. Mary's City, [4] which was also the first capital of Maryland [1] and is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America. [5] [6] Colonial St. Mary's City was actually only a town and at its peak had between 500 and 600 residents.
The society was founded in 1827, and its first president was the wealthy Maryland Catholic planter Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who was a substantial slaveholder. [35] Although Carroll supported the gradual abolition of slavery, he did not free his own slaves, perhaps fearing that they might be rendered destitute by the difficulties of ...
Its residents established homesteads and pledged to help defend the Spanish colony, declaring they would be "the most cruel enemies of the English"; their village lasted until 1763, when the ...
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.