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Who founded the colony of Maryland and why?

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 ∙ 15y ago
Updated: 8/22/2023

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.

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