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 is erected in Southern Maryland by settlers. Lost, excavation have found a brick cellar of a guardhouse or storehouse, the 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 |
Work |
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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1667/00/00 |
Society of Jesus |
Vocation |
The first major brick building the colonists erect in Maryland is the Brick Chapel built by the Jesuits (reconstructed). |
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1675/00/00 |
Philip Calvert |
Life |
Expensive wooden coffins encased in sheets of lead are shipped from England in the late 1670s to the Calverts. |
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1679/00/00 |
Philip Calvert |
Widower |
Anne Calvert dies in 1678 or 1679 and is buried in St Mary's Brick Chapel. A modern exam will show that her right thigh bone had been badly broken, became infected and left a hole in the bone that shortened her leg by 3 inches. |
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1680/00/00 |
Philip Calvert |
Home Locale |
In the late 1670s, Philip Calvert, owner of 3,900 acres of land, erects a house in St Marys. Calvert calls it St Peters. Lost, the house had a wine cellar and a library with books on astronomy, medicine and law. |
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1683/01/00 |
Philip Calvert |
Died |
Philip Calvert dies at St Mary's. Calvert was buried at the brick chapel in St Mary's City. |
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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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1704/00/00 |
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The government orders the closing of St Mary's Catholic Chapel. The church will be dismantled c 1710 and the site will become a farm field with 400 or 500 unmarked graves. |
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1717/12/09 |
John Gardiner |
Died |
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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1990/00/00 |
Philip Calvert |
In Memoriam |
Archeologist exhumed three lead-lined coffins at the Brick Chapel site containing the remains of Maryland colonial governor Philip Calvert, his wife Anne, and 6-month-old son who suffered from rickets and probably scurvy. |
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2009/07/00 |
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Historic St Mary's completes a reproduction of the Brick Chapel of 1667 on the site of the original Jesuit mission church. About 70 people are buried under the chapel's stone floor. |
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