King Charles I or Lord Baltimore
The original colony of Maryland was founded in 1634.
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The Province of Maryland
Cecilius Calvert 2nd Baron Baltimore the proprietor of the Maryland Colony was a Roman Catholic.
The Proprietor and the Governor. It was established by Charter as a Feudal and Princely Colony.
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King Charles I gave a charter to Cecil Calvert, the 2nd Lord Baltimore as Proprietor who in turn sent his younger brother Leonard as Governor with the first Colonist to establish the Colony for the English Catholic minority and to make the Calverts rich.
Thomas Johnson was the first Governor of the US State of Maryland and Leonard Calvert was the first Governor of the English Colony of Maryland.
Maryland was the first proprietary colony founded in the New World. The charter for the colony was granted by the King, but in reality the Lord Proprietor had complete authority to administer the colony as he saw fit.
In 1632, the Catholic nobleman Cecil Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, established the colony of Maryland as a haven for Catholics. In 1633, he named his brother Leonard Calvert as governor of this colony.
=He wanted to find a safe place for his fellow Catholics and he thought the colony would give him some fortune=
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