Leonard Calvert (1610-1647) was the second son and sixth child of George Calvert (1579/1580-1632) the first Lord Baltimore. Leonard accompanied his father to Newfoundland, then returned to England. After his father's death, his older brother (the second Lord Baltimore) appointed Leonard as the governor of Maryland. He and his family reached there in 1634 (although he returned in 1643 to England, when summoned by his brother). Descendants and relatives...

Biography of Henry Harford (1758-1834), descendant of the prominent Calvert family of Maryland. Includes information on the Calverts and the colonial history of Maryland.

"Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct areas of interaction and settlement during the colonial period. Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in North America before the American Revolution. Yet these 'sister' colonies--despite their similar climate and soil, emphasis on tobacco farming, and...