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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.
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.
Maryland then finally agreed to join the new American confederation by being one of the last of the former colonies ratifying the long proposed Articles in 1781, when they took effect. Later that same decade, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the stronger government structure proposed in the new U.S. Constitution in 1788.
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [9]
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.
The Rockville Railroad Station in Rockville, Maryland in 2017 Summit Avenue in Gaithersburg, Maryland in the early 1900s The Montgomery County Fair in Rockville, Maryland in 1917 By 1776, there was a growing movement to form a new, strong U.S. federal government , with each of the Thirteen Colonies retaining the authority to govern its local ...
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.
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.