It was founded in 1629 by George Calvert aka Lord Baltimore and was claimed by Britain, and was founded as a mainly-Catholic Providence.
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was a law passed to establish religious tolerance for Trinitarians. This Act created the first law banning religious hate speech. The Calvert's who were the founders of Maryland and Catholic, sought to enact laws that would protect settlers from the dominant Anglicanism of Britain's colonies.
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Virginia
George Washington was born in Fairfax County, Virgina.
The colony of Maryland.
George Calvert started the colony of Maryland. He wanted Catholics to have a colony. Not sure if I'm right though :P
George Calvert.
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore.
The Application For Charter to Charles I for a new Colony.
The charter for the colony of Maryland was granted to George Calvert Baron of Baltimore. He died, however, before the colony was settled. His son, Cecil Calvert or more commonly know as Lord Baltimore, saw to it that the colony was settled. In 1633, the first group of settlers sailed for the colony led by Leonard Calvert, Cecil Calvert's younger brother.
The second Lord Baltimore.
It started as a concept put forward by the 1st Lord Baltimore George Calvert and given to King Charles I to establish a new world Colony of Englands unwanted Catholic minority. In 1632 Calvert died and five weeks later the Charter for Mayland was granted to his son Cecil Calvert the 2nd Lord Baltimore. Ships, supplies and colonists saliled for the New World in 1933 under the leadership of Governor Leonard Calvert, via Barbados and Jamestown and arrived in Maryland on 25 March 1634.
Maryland was a southern colony.
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William Penn and Sir George Calvert were two of the founders of American colonies that would later become states. William Penn founded Pennsylvania. Sir George Calvert founded the colony of Maryland, but granting of the charter was not completed until five weeks after his death.