Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751, was a British landowner who was the last Baron Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Provinc
Portrait by Johann Ludwig Tietz, c. 1750
Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore
Engraving of Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore
Calvert's family seat at Woodcote Park, Surrey, in an engraving by John Hassell circa 1816
Then Province of Maryland had been a British / English colony since 1632, when Sir George Calvert, first Baron of Baltimore and Lord Baltimore, received a charter and grant from King Charles I of Engl
Painting by John Trumbull of General George Washington Resigning His Commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, at the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis on December 23, 1783, after the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.
Maryland planter Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Samuel Chase, firebrand revolutionary and later a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Painting by Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896, depicting the burning of the Peggy Stewart at the Annapolis Tea Party, October 19, 1774.