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Thomas Notley (Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England 1632 - 3 April 1679) was the 8th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1676 through 1679. [1] Having first moved to Barbados he immigrated to America in 1662. [ 2 ]
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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. In 1781, Maryland was the 13th signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
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 .
Thomas Brooke was born in Battle, Sussex, England on June 23, 1632, the son of Gov. Robert Brooke Sr., Esq. (1602–1655) and his first wife, Mary Baker (1602–1634). Thomas was raised as a Protestant but converted to Roman Catholicism .
20 June – A royal charter issued for the foundation of Maryland colony in North America. Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor. July – portraitist Anthony van Dyck , newly returned to London, is knighted and granted a pension as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties .
Colonel Thomas Brooke Jr. of Brookefield (1660 – 1731) was President of the Council in Maryland and acting 13th Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the son of Major Thomas Brooke Sr. and Esquire and his second wife Eleanor Hatton who later remarried Col. Henry Darnall . [ 1 ]