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23 hours ago · Maryland - Colonial, Chesapeake, Plantations: In 1608 the English explorer Capt. John Smith sailed into Chesapeake Bay and stayed for several weeks to map the shoreline. With reference to the countryside around the bay, Smith exclaimed, “Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation.” In 1632 Cecilius Calvert was granted a charter for the land ...
- English Colonial Expansion. Sixteenth-century England was a tumultuous place. Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food, many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep.
- The Tobacco Colonies. In 1606, King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company (later the Virginia Company) and the northern half to the Plymouth Company.
- The New England Colonies. The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony.
- The Middle Colonies. In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York.
Colony of Virginia, established in 1607 as a proprietary colony; chartered as a royal colony in 1624. Province of Maryland , established 1632 as a proprietary colony. Province of North Carolina , previously part of the Carolina province (see below) until 1712; chartered as a royal colony in 1729.
The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England in 1498. After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George ...
Aug 29, 2023 · 1632–1773. Maryland Colony facts about the history, geography, and people of Colonial Maryland, which was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. Maryland was founded in 1632 and implemented one of the first laws requiring religious tolerance in America, the Act of Toleration. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore by ...
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This map is part of the collection entitled: Map Collections from the University of Texas at Arlington and was provided by the University of Texas at Arlington Library to The Portal to Texas History , a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries . It has been viewed 1340 times, with 5 in the last month. More information about this map can ...
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Foundation of the 13 American colonies. This map is part of a series of 7 animated maps showing the history of European Colonies in North America. In the decades that followed the establishment of the colony of Virginia, England sent settlers to sites all along the American coast between New France, to the North, and Spanish-controlled Florida ...
