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17 hours ago · As one of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Lord Baltimore a colonial charter, naming the colony after his wife, Henrietta Maria.
5 days ago · In 1705, the attorney general, Edward Northey, had ruled in response to a challenge to the religious policy of Lord Baltimore in Maryland that Elizabethan anti-Catholic legislation only applied to the colonies under English rule at the time of its passage, leaving doubt about the legitimacy of such laws in dominions acquired after their ...
5 days ago · The plantation of Virginia’s colonial governor was one of many such English manor houses established across Virginia and the southern colonies in the late 17th and 18th centuries. They were built by the families of aristocratic Cavaliers who had followed the siren-call of Sir William across the Atlantic to the colony of Virginia.
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1 day ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
4 days ago · 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. 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 .
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2 days ago · Agreed to recommend the confirmation of Colonel Cole as Secretary. Lord Baltimore, Mr. Darnall and others from Maryland attended. Copies of two addresses from Maryland were read (see Nos. 405, 406). Agreed to recommend a letter approving the proclamation of their Majesties and empowering them to continue the administration of the Government for ...
4 days ago · PREFACE. State of the Colonies at King James's accession. THE present volume opens with the accession of King James the Second, on the 6th of February 1685, and is continued to December 1688, at which date, as will be seen, orders were still issued from England in respect of the Colonies in his name and by his authority.
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