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.
Henry Harford
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Henry Harford, 5th Proprietor of Maryland, was the last proprietary owner of the British colony of Maryland. He was born in 1758; the eldest — but illegitimate — son of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Ba
Harford's father, Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.
Harford's sister, Frances Harford, painted by George Romney in 1785
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783. Engraving by H. Moses after Benjamin West..