Category: Province of Maryland
Categories: Maryland History | Chesapeake Bay Colonies | Colonial America | Thirteen Colonies | English Colonies | US History | US Southern Colonies | Middle Colonies
This is the high level category for Maryland prior to its independence in 1776. For details of Maryland's colonial history, see Space: Province of Maryland and Wikipedia:Province of Maryland. The Category: Province of Maryland was succeeded by Maryland in the United States of America.
Province of Maryland categories are managed by the US Southern Colonies Project in conjunction with the Categorization Project. See: Category:US Southern Colonies Project
Subcategory Descriptions
Add profiles to the narrowest applicable categories.
County Subcategories
The following Maryland Counties existed before 1773. Maryland residents who lived before 1776 should be categorized by one of these counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Kent, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. Mary's, Talbot, and Worcester.
- "In 1692, the Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church, became the established church of the Province of Maryland through an Act of the General Assembly.
- Ten counties had been established in the colony, and
- those counties were divided into 30 parishes
- After the American Revolutionary War, they became part of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, which split off the Episcopal Diocese of Easton in 1868 and the Episcopal Diocese of Washington in 1895. Here is a LIST wikipedia.com
Settlement Subcategories
- Saint Clement's Island, Province of Maryland: later known as Blackiston's Island, for profiles of persons associated with Saint Clement's Island before 1776;
- St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland: for profiles of persons associated with St Mary's City before 1776;
- Providence, Province of Maryland: now Annapolis City and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for profiles of persons associated with it during 1649 -1660;
Subcategories by Period
- First Families of Maryland: for profiles of persons eligible for membership in First Families of Maryland;
- Maryland Founders and Settlers: for profiles of any founders and settlers in Maryland prior to 1776;
Immigrants to the Province of Maryland
- If you know which ship the person immigrated on, add them to the ship's category, see Chesapeake Colony Ships or for ships by decade, see Category:Ships, for example:
- Province of Maryland, Immigrants from England;
Resources
- Maryland Colony Resource Page, a sub project of the US Southern Colonies. The page has resources for research regarding colonial Maryland. It is a work in progress, and any additions are welcome!
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