Towards the close of the year 1675, Cecil Calvert, the Lord Baltimore, the founder of Maryland, died; and was succeeded by his son Charles, both in his honors and estates. For more than forty years, Cecil Calvert, in presiding over the province as its proprietor, had displayed the highest...
Maryland was established, by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, in 1634 as an English colony encompassing the northern half of the Chesapeake Bay. With a central position along the North American coast, the colony has traditionally been seen as a middle ground between the economic and social mod...
of the civil wars, it is supposed to have contained twenty-five thousand souls.[***] For a like reason, the Catholics, afterwards, who found themselves exposed to many hardships, and dreaded still worse treatment went over to America in great numbers, and settled the colony of Maryland. ...
Maryland colonystate constitutional lawbill of rightsconstitutional draftingMarylandMaryland's history shows a remarkable constitutional evolution. At its founding, the province of Maryland was subject to the largely unwritten British constitutCharles A. Rees...
Something still more like the feudal system of the Old World appeared in the numerous manors or the huge landed estates granted by the crown, the companies, or the proprietors. In the colony of Maryland alone there were sixty manors of three thousand acres each, owned by wealthy men and ti...
History of Maine Image: Map of Early Maine The 1622 grant of the Province of Maine is outlined in blue. The Province of New Hampshire is shown in teal, and the colony of Maine is shown in pink. The boundaries of the Massachusetts Bay Company grant are shown in green. The Province of ...
The very first Colony was Virginia (originally Jamestown), was founded in 1607 and the last of the 13 colonies to form was Georgia. Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island and ...
A long dispute ensued between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of the Province of Maryland as to the exact dominion controlled by Penn on the lower Delaware. The dispute continued between the heirs Penn and Baltimore until almost the end of the colonial period. By 1704, the Province of Pennsy...
Romanists as well as Puritans were allowed to seek free exercise of their religion in the New World; and the primarily Romanist colony of Maryland was also of necessity tolerationist. This group, however, was much more nearly akin to the landowning classes of the South in origin than to ...
Founding of Rhode Island In 1635, Williams was banished to England by theMassachusetts Bay Colonyfor his beliefs in the separation of church and state and freedom of religion. Instead, he fled and lived with the Narragansett Indians in what would become Providence Plantation (meaning "settlement"...