Colonial families of Maryland
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The Colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia, and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies. Many of the early settlers came from the West Midlands in England, although the Maryland families were composed of a variety of European nationalities, e.g. French, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Swedish, in addition to English.
Maryland was uniquely created as a colony for Catholic aristocracy and gentry, but Anglicanism eventually came to dominate, partly through influence from neighboring Virginia.
Charles I of England granted the province palatinate status under Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. The foundational charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor for Maryland.
The first areas of colonization were on the Patuxent River and up along the Chesapeake Bay near and around current St. Mary's and Charles counties.
Founders and scions
- John Bowie, Sr.
- Oden Bowie
- Robert Bowie
- Thomas Fielder Bowie
- Walter Bowie
- Captain William Bowie
- William Duckett Bowie
- William Burgess, the Founder, Deputy Governor
- George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
- Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
- Leonard Calvert
- Phillip Calvert (governor)
- Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
- Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
- Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
- Benedict Leonard Calvert
- Benedict Swingate Calvert
- Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
- Henry Harford
- Eleanor Calvert
- Charles Benedict Calvert
- Charles Calvert (governor)
- Charles Carroll the Settler
- Charles Carroll of Annapolis
- Charles Carroll (barrister)
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton
- Daniel Carroll
- John Carroll (bishop)
- John Lee Carroll
- Thomas King Carroll
- Anna Ella Carroll
- James Carroll (Maryland politician)
- Samuel S. Carroll
- Dorsey family
- Edward Dorsey the Shipwright
- Hon. John Dorsey[2]
- Major Edward Dorsey[3]
- Nicholas Greenberry, Governor; tombstone transferred to St.Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis
- Thomas Hammond (regicide), the Founder and possible Regicide of Charles I
- Maj.Gen.John Hammond, tombstone from 'Mountain Neck' plantation to St.Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis
- Thomas Hatton, MD Secretary, killed in action at the Battle of the Severn
- Matthew Howard Sr, Founder
- John Eager Howard
- George Howard (Governor of Maryland)
- Benjamin Chew Howard
- Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland)
- Edward Lloyd (delegate)
- Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)
- Henry Lloyd (governor)
- James Lloyd (Maryland)
- Charles Willson Peale
- James Peale
- Raphaelle Peale
- Rembrandt Peale
- Rubens Peale
- Titian Peale
- Anna Claypoole Peale
- Charles Peale Polk
- Margaretta Angelica Peale
- Sarah Miriam Peale
- Teague Riggin (planter, Golden Lyon Plantation, Pocomoke Sound)
- Darby Riggin (planter, Annemessex, later moved to Accomack County, Virginia)
- John Riggin (planter, Marumsco, Pocomoke Sound)
- John Riggin (planter, Annemessex)
- John Rodgers (naval officer, War of 1812)
- John Rodgers (American Civil War naval officer)
- John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I)
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers
- Henry Sewall, MD Secretary; grandson and grand nephew of the Mayors of Coventry
- Nicholas Sewall, Dep.Governor
- Skirvin/Skirven family
- Three brothers as follows
- George Skirvin/Skirven (Judge, Chestertown, Kent Co., Skirvin's Neglect)
- Francis Skirvin/Skirven (Planter, Ordinary owner, Annapolis)
- William Skirvin/Skirven (Physician, Queen Anne's Co.)
- Thomas Sparrow (Planter, Sparrows Point, Rhode River)
- George H. Steuart (planter)
- George Steuart Hume
- George H. Steuart (Major General)
- Richard Sprigg Steuart
- George H. Steuart (Brigadier General)
- William Steuart (Mayor of Baltimore)
- Capt.Richard Warfield, the Founder; ancestor of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor; tombstone transferred from plantation to St. Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis
- Capt.John Worthington, the Founder; tombstone transferred to St. Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis
See also
- First Families of Virginia
- American gentry
- Hammond-Harwood House
- Whitehall (Annapolis, Maryland)
- Tulip Hill
- Pimlico Race Course
- Preakness Stakes
References
- ^ Hall, Clayton Colman (1912). Baltimore: Its History and Its People, vol.3. Lewis Historical Publishing Co. p. 300.
- ^ White, John T. The National encyclopaedia of American biography, Volume 9, 1899. pg 299.
- ^ Joshua Dorsey Warfield. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A genealogical and biographical review from wills, deeds and church records. Kohn & Pollock. 1905.
- Sources
- Hester Dorsey Richardson. Side-lights on Maryland history: with sketches of early Maryland families. Vol. II. Williams and Wilkins. 1913.
- Joshua Dorsey Warfield. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A genealogical and biographical review from wills, deeds and church records. Kohn & Pollock. 1905.