| 1634/03/00 |
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The Maryland colonys first governor, Leonard Calvert, arrives at St Mary's. |
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| 1634/03/00 |
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Maryland colonists included Father Andrew White, a Jesuit priest and Mathias de Sousa, an indentured servant of African and Portuguese descent who later serve in the legislative assembly of freemen. |
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| 1634/03/00 |
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In late March, English Catholics fleeing Protestant persecution and other colonists arrive at St Mary's on two ships, the ARK and the DOVE. |
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Settling the American Colonies |
| 1634/04/00 |
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A palisaded fort (lost) is erected in Southern Maryland by settlers. Excavations have revealed a brick cellar of a guardhouse or storehouse, a trigger guard for a musket and a quartzite arrow head that is 4,500 years old. |
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| 1634/05/30 |
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Leonard Calvert writes to business partner Richard Lechford: I found a most convenient harbor, and pleasant country lying on each side of it, On the east side of it we have seated ourselves, within one half mile of the river. |
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| 1635/02/26 |
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The first Maryland General Assembly, a law-making assembly of freemen, meets at St Mary's City. This proprietary assembly is one body consisting of the governor and council, and a general assembly of all freemen. |
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| 1650/00/00 |
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Maryland General Assembly separates into two bodies. Today's House of Delegates began as the Lower House of the General Assembly with freemen in each hundred elected burgesses as their representatives. |
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| 1660/00/00 |
Capt Luke Gardiner |
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Luke Gardiner is elected to the Lower House of the General Assembly as burgess representing St Mary's County, 1660, 1661 and 1662. |
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| 1680/00/00 |
Philip Calvert |
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In the late 1670s, Philip Calvert, owner of 3,900 acres of land, erects a residence in St Mary's and calls it St Peters. Now lost, the house had a wine cellar and a library with 100 books, including astronomy, medicine and law. |
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| 1695/00/00 |
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Maryland moves its capital to Annapolis. St Marys City is abandoned and becomes a ghost town. |
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| 1717/12/09 |
John Gardiner |
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John Gardiner dies in St Marys, St Mary's County, Province of Maryland. |
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| 1845/00/00 |
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A Greek revival style residence is built in the early 1840s for Dr John Brome at the center of the primary plantation in the St Mary's City area. The house will stay in the Howard family until 1980. |
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