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  Maryland - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Lord Baltimore, who named the territory in honour of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of Charles I, died before the issue of a royal charter, which later in 1632 was granted to his son Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.
In an attempt to conciliate the Puritans, Lord Baltimore consented, in 1650, to the formation of Anne Arundel County, comprising the Puritan settlements in the colony.
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, son of Cecilius, became Lord Proprietor of the colony in 1675.
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 Maryland - MSN Encarta
In 1632, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, induced King Charles I of England to grant him the land north of the Potomac River, which had been part of the grant to Virginia colony.
Calvert, a former high adviser to the king and recent convert to Roman Catholicism, wanted to establish a community where fellow Catholics, who were persecuted in England, could worship freely.
Cecilius Calvert proceeded to organize an expedition of about 200 settlers under the leadership of his younger brother Leonard Calvert, who was to serve as provincial governor.
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 Maryland - Search View - MSN Encarta
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Baltimore, one of the chief ports on the Eastern Seaboard, ranks among the leading U.S. ports in terms of the quantity of imported cargo received annually.
Baltimore is by far the largest city, with a 2004 population of 636,251.
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 Baron: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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 History of Colonial America - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
George Calvert died that same year and his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, inherited the charter.
Baltimore sent his brother, Leonard Calvert, to serve as the head of the new colony, but when Calvert tried to govern as he wished, the settlers resisted.
Baltimore, who had recently converted to Catholicism, wanted Maryland to become a refuge where his fellow English Catholics could escape religious persecution.
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 MARYLAND USA
Calvert was the family name of the Lords Baltimore who founded Maryland, and their colors of gold and fl appear in the first and fourth quarters of the flag.
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, sent a similar seal from England in 1648 for the use of the Maryland Chancellor.
In 1632, King Charles I of England granted George Calvert, (The Calvert family was principally responsible for the planning and settlement of the province of Maryland) 1st Baron Baltimore settlement rights to lands between the 40th parallel and the south bank of the Potomac.
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 Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (circa 1605 - 1675), inherited on the death of his father George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore[?] in 1632 the grant by Charles I of England of the new colony of Maryland.
Cecilius thus became Maryland's first proprietor (1632 - 1675).
He governed through deputies, the last being his only son Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore[?].
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 Intercessory Prayer
Calvert was named the first Baron of Baltimore of County Longford in Ireland.
Lord Baltimore in the colony, in 1628, forced the baptism of a Protestant child against the wish and protest of the father.
The Maryland Toleration Act (1649) [proposed by Lord Baltimore] was one of the first laws that explicitly tolerated varieties of religion (as long as it was Christian), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the First Amendment.
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 Genealogy Data Page 31 (Notes Pages)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Note: [Calvert.FTW]Leonard Calvert was the younger brother of Cecilius Calvert and the 2nd son of George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore.
Leonard Calvert was thereupon deputized as governor of the colony, and in November 1633 he sailed from England in the ships Ark and Dove with 17 gentlemen and their wives and about 200 others.
Cecilius Calvert studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and married Anne Arundell, daughter of the 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour, a Roman Catholic peer.
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 Calvert Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
George was the son of Leonard and Alicia (de Crossland) Calvert and George was born around 1580 in Kiplin Hall, Bolton-on-Swale.
Baron Baltimore had been interested in the American colonies for years and had invested in the Virginia Company, located in Jamestown.
Maryland was named after the new King's wife, Henrietta Maria, Maryland was settled by the Calvert's in 1634 by Cecilius' brother Leonard Calvert who became one of the first settlers of Maryland.
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 Cecilius CALVERT, 2nd Lord Baltimore
King Charles I approved a request from George Calvert to establish a colony called the Province of Maryland ("Terra Mariae") in 1635.
He told his son to keep the Act of Toleration as law for the good of Maryland.2   Freedom of religion was important to help the Maryland colonists to live together in peace.  Cecil died in 1675, after governing Maryland for forty-two years.
Cecilius Calvert, "Instructions to the Colonists by Lord Baltimore, (1633)" in Clayton Coleman Hall, ed., Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684 (NY:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910), 11-23.
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 The Calvert Chronicles
Even by the general social standards of their times the aristocratic Calverts operated under a code of behavior that was - to them and their social peers - assumed, even considered laudable, while dramatically at odds with the standards of behavior expected of the general population both then and now.
The historical Calverts would in many ways be strangers to us today, but in the context of their times they were, with one notable exception, upright and honorable men and women, representative of the society from which they arose.
George Calvert was not only able to openly profess Catholicism to a Protestant King, but managed to have his grant of baronial title omit the usual obligation that he be “conformable in point of religion”, i.e., that his religion and the King’s be identical.
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 Numbering Systems
Another of the original 13 colonies was Maryland which was granted to Cecilius Calvert, the 2nd.
This was not the first attempt by a Calvert to establish a presence in the New world.
Baron Baltimore had established a small colony called Ferryland at Newfoundland.
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 Baltimore Cecilius Calvert 2nd Baron - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Baltimore Cecilius Calvert 2nd Baron - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
The territory now comprising the states of Maryland and Delaware was granted to George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, by Charles I, King of England,...
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron (1637-1715), son of the 2nd baron, Cecilius Calvert.
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 Famous Virginia Relations of the Hackley Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Eldest born son and heir of George Calvert, I Lord Baron of Baltimore in Ireland, Cecil was raised a Catholic, attended Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1628 married Anne Arundell.
On 20 June 1632 Cecilius signed the "Charter of Maryland", and became the founder of the Province of Maryland, which was settled in 1634.
Their son, John Parke Custis, married Eleanor Calvert, the daughter of Benedict Calvert of Prince George's County, Maryland, a direct descendant of the Lords Baltimore of Maryland, including Cecelius Calvert, II Baron of Baltimore and signer of the Maryland Charter.
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 I2754: Living (____ - ____)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
George Calvert was born about 1579/80, in or near the village ofDanby Wiske, near the town of North Allerton, in North Riding, Yorkshire,England, son of Leonard, son of John and Margerie Calvert.
George Calvert was not, like Buckingham, a man of brilliant talentand boundless confidence in his own abilities, nor was he one of thosewho found the most attractive fishing in troubled waters.
The Calvert baronetcy was recent and Irish, not English; thefamily seat of Kiplin was in Yorkshire, distant from Court.....Drawn bythe Calvert's future prospects and the family's Catholic faith, ThomasARUNDEL (Lord ArundeL at Wardour) asked the second Lord Baltimore, theyoung Cecilius, to we daughter Anne.
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 Maryland State Motto Fatti Maschii Parole Femine Strong Deeds Gentle Words
The 1st and 4th quarters represent the arms of the Calvert family described in heraldic language as a paly of 6 pieces, or (gold) and sable (fl) a bend counterchanged.
The 2nd and 3rd quarters show the arms of the Crossland family, which Cecil inherited from his grandmother, Alicia, wife of Leonard Calvert, the father of George, 1st Lord Baltimore.
The motto in Italian on a ribbon at the feet of the plowman and fisherman is the motto of the Calvert family "Fatti maschii parole femine" loosely translated as "Manly deeds, womanly words".
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 confederacy
A2Maryland In 1634 Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, founded Maryland under a royal charter, which made the colony Baltimore's personal property.
Baltimore, a Catholic nobleman, hoped to establish a refuge for English Catholics and sell large estates to individuals who would operate as feudal lords.
Freed servants preferred farming on their own to staying on as tenants, and the colony quickly evolved as Virginia had: Planters (many of them former servants) imported servants from England and grew tobacco.
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 WHITEHEAD
Charles 1 2nd son of James 1 a member of the Scottish Stuart Clan, made a mess of being King of England.
It was the property along the Potomac River from Wicomico "as high as the settlements extend." New Scotland Hundred extended from Oxon Branch (opposite Alexandria, Va.) to the falls of the Potomac.
Calvert's daughter Eugenia sold 60 acres in 1742 for the town of Garrison's Landing.
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Baltimore (of Baltimore), Charles Calvert, (3rd) Baron (b.
He was sent over as governor of Maryland in 1661 by his father, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, and at his father's death in 1675 he succeeded as proprietor of the colony.
His son, Benedict Leonard Calvert (4th Baron Baltimore), conformed to the established Church of England in 1713 and thereupon had the colony of Maryland restored to him.
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Cecilius inherited the family title and also became proprietor of the newly chartered Roman Catholic colony of Maryland.
Born in London in 1606, Cecilius or Cecil, was the eldest son of George Calvert, Baron of Baltimore in Ireland.
Determined to avoid religious strife in the new colony, Cecilius instructed his brother Leonard Calvert who, he had appointed governor, that all settlers were to be granted religious liberty.
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 William Claiborne Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kent Island was included in the proprietorial grant to Lord Baltimore in 1632, despite Claiborne's opposition in London to the grant.
However, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, claimed Kent Island as part of the land grant given his family by royal charter.
Lord Baltimore's claim to the colony was upheld, however, and Maryland was returned to him.
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 The U.S.A
Baltimore is an independent city located in the U.S. state of Maryland.
The present city dates from July 30, 1729 and is named after Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore who was the first Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland.
Baltimore is in the north central part of the state of Maryland, on the Patapsco River, not far from the Chesapeake Bay.
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 Rev. Col. John Coode and the Glorious Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thomas Gerard's relative, Sir Thomas Gerard, Lord Baron of Byrne, was one of the Catholic gentry who financed Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, for the initial colonization of Maryland in 1634.
Thomas WATTS was the brother-in-law of Simon STACY of Stafford County, Virginia and Calvert County, Maryland.
Baltimore installed Josiah FENDALL, a Protestant, as his Lt. Governor in 1656 to retake control of the Maryland government, but truly under control of Parliament.
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 COLVARD/CALVERT DIRECT LINE ANCESTORS - The Ancestry of Grover and Harrison Shepherd by Brodrick Shepherd
The Colvards are descended from Sir George Calvert of Yorkshire, England.
After being elected to Parliment in 1609, Calvert was knighted in 1617 by James I of England and became his secretary of state in 1619.
Ann Calvert, born 1607, married William Peasley in 1627, and died in 1672.
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 Edward Overman - pafg02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thomas Harwood proves 30 Rights and assigns Charles Calvert Esq Transcription of land patent in which Captain Thomas Harwood proves his land rights for transporting 30 persons into Maryland in 1667 and assigns these rights to Charles Calvert, who was Governor of Maryland.
Charles Calvert, Governor of MD, was witness to one and beneficiary of the other.
"Cecilius" is Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, Proprieter of the Palatinate of Maryland.
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 Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron - MSN Encarta
Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron - MSN Encarta
Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron (1605-1675), elder son of the 1st Baron, George Calvert, the founder of Maryland.
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MARYLAND George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, had been on the boards of both the New England Council and the London Company and had attempted to establish a colony in Newfoundland.
Lord Calvert was given rights in Maryland equivalent to those of a lord in the old world, with the right to establish feudal manors and underlords, hold people in serfdom, establish his own courts and make his own laws.
Lord Baltimore wisely decided to allow many legal freedoms, and Because many of the settlers were protestant, he permitted religious freedom to all Christians in the Toleration Act of 1649.
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