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When Europeans began to settle in Maryland in the early 17th century, the main tribes included the Nanticoke on the Eastern Shore, and the Iroquoian speaking Susquehannock. Early exposure to new European diseases brought widespread fatalities to the Native Americans, as they had no immunity to them. Communities were disrupted by such losses.
Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the British colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province. In 1644 the dispute with William Claiborne led to armed conflict.
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.
(1642 – 1675) early settler [49] Howard. Baltimore County, Howard County. Matthew Howard Sr: early settler John Eager Howard (1752 – 1827) soldier, plantation owner and politician, Howard County is named after him [50] George Howard (Governor of Maryland) (1789 – 1846) 22nd governor of Maryland Benjamin Chew Howard (1791 – 1872 ...
In the period following Oliver Cromwell's fall in England, the colony grew and transitioned to a slave economy. It saw the beginnings of industry and urbanization. At the turn of the eighteenth century, King William's War (1689–1697) and Queen Anne's War (1702–1714) brought Maryland into depression again as European demand for tobacco decreased sharply.
The first European settlers in Maryland founded the settlement of St. Mary's City after arriving at St. Clement's Island in 1634. [4] This land was purchased by Leonard Calvert from the Yaocomico people, who inhabited the site prior to colonial arrival. [ 5 ]
On Wednesday, the state’s three-member Board of Public Works approved a $13 million settlement arising from an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor, which examined time ...
Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania.. The County of Baltimore was "erected" around 1659 in the records of the General Assembly of Maryland one of the earliest divisions of the Maryland Colony into counties when a warrant was issued to be served by the "Sheriff of Baltimore County."