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Vor einem Tag · The city is named after Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, an English peer, member of the Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland. The Calverts took the title Barons Baltimore from Baltimore Manor, an English Plantation estate they were granted in County Longford, Ireland.
Vor einem Tag · In 1632, King Charles I granted the charter for the Province of Maryland to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. Calvert's father had been a prominent Catholic official who encouraged Catholic immigration to the English colonies. The charter offered no guidelines on religion.
Vor 4 Tagen · Their sponsor was Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who, as proprietor of the colony, encouraged Catholic settlement and reserved more than 20,000 acres for the Jesuits. Like other Marylanders with land and privilege, Jesuits participated in plantation slavery from the early 1700s. Their embrace of the practice might partly be ascribed ...
Vor 2 Tagen · A convicted recusant is recorded in Semley in 1629, and between 1645 and 1654 two inhabitants of the parish, Cecil, Baron Baltimore, who claimed the lordship of the manor, and William Knipe, suffered sequestration of their estates as papists.
Vor 3 Tagen · On the right side of the shield, the top (known as the “chief”) and the bottom (the “base”) feature references to George Calvert and his son Cecil Calvert – the first and second barons of Baltimore. The Calverts were among the first Catholics to arrive in colonial America.
Vor 2 Tagen · The governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and the constitutional powers of Maryland's governors make them among the most powerful governors in the United States. [2] The current governor is Democrat Wes Moore, who took office on January 18, 2023. [3]
Vor 3 Tagen · Patent to Cecil Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, containing a grant of the Province of Maryland. Latin. Latin. [ Copy examined and corrected by the original, communicated by Mr. Beake from Lord Baltimore , 1723, July 5.
