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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
As did other colonies, Maryland used the headright system to encourage people to bring in new settlers. Led by Leonard Calvert , Cecil Calvert's younger brother, the first settlers departed from Cowes , on the Isle of Wight , on November 22, 1633, aboard two small ships, the Ark and the Dove .
Around 1715, the first British settlers began building farms and plantations in the area. [1]: 18–19 These earliest settlers were English or Scottish immigrants from other portions of Maryland, German settlers moving down from Pennsylvania, or Quakers who came to settle on land granted to a convert named James Brooke in what is now ...
When European settlers first began moving into western Maryland in the 1730s and 1740s, they encountered Native Americans residing between the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers. Conflicts ensued, and in 1744, the Maryland legislature purchased the land from the area's Native Americans, observing that they would settle "for nothing less than Blood ...
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.
1632 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore obtains charter to found the Province of Maryland. 1634 – Creation of the shires of Virginia. Council members insist on viewing the Massachusetts charter. 1634 - First English settlers arrive in Maryland. 1634–36 – First English settlements in the Connecticut River Valley.
European settlers first settled in Maryland in 1634, but as the century progressed, violence and hostility between Indigenous peoples and European settlers increased. Various treaties and reservations were established in 17th and 18th century, but many Native peoples left the area in the mid-to-late 18th century.
The border dispute with Pennsylvania continued and led to Cresap's War, a conflict between settlers from Pennsylvania and Maryland fought in the 1730s. Hostilities erupted in 1730 with a series of violent incidents prompted by disputes over property rights and law enforcement, and escalated through the first half of the decade, culminating in ...