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unusual facts about Province of Maryland


Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet

Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland (18 June 1766 – 14 November 1809) was an English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator.


Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore

Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715) was an English nobleman and politician.

Broad Creek, Prince George's County, Maryland

The area was settled by Europeans in the 1660s and the town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

Christopher Lowndes

On May 14, 1747, Lowndes married Elizabeth Tasker (February 4, 1726-September 19, 1789), daughter of Benjamin Tasker, Sr., President of the Council of Maryland, at St. Anne's Parish in Annapolis, Maryland.

Queen Anne, Prince George's County, Maryland

The town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area

The early colonial records of Maryland describe the area as a hunting ground for Native Americans.

The Sot-Weed Factor

A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour

In 1632, after the death of his father George, (1579-1632), the first Lord Baltimore, and late loyal friend and Secretary of State, King Charles I renewed the grant originally made to his father, with the proprietorship of Maryland after an earlier unsuccessful colony of Avalon in Newfoundland.

William Paca

William Paca was born in Abingdon, in what was then Baltimore County (Abingdon was later included in Harford County when that county was formed from Baltimore County in 1773), in the British colony of Maryland.


see also

Charles Calvert

Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), second Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland

William Bowie

Captain William Bowie (1721-?), early colonist in the Province of Maryland, American Revolutionary, member of the Assembly of Freemen and a delegate to the Annapolis Convention