Baltimore: its past and present . MoRLiNG, Mykr & Co., Printers and Publishers, t6 and 18 North Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887. By a. von DEGEN, In the office of the Librarian of Congress^ Washington, D. C. IP rcoi-34g2. BALTIMORE: ITS 6R0WTH A^D DEVELOPMENT,. EORGE CALVERT, the founder of Maryland, whileclerk in the Privy Council of Ergland, became a greatfavorite of James I. He was knighted and raisedto the Irish peerage as Baron of Baltimore, in thecounty of Longford, Ireland, and was known fromthis time forward as Sir George Calvert, first LordBaltimore. He
Baltimore: its past and present . MoRLiNG, Mykr & Co., Printers and Publishers, t6 and 18 North Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887. By a. von DEGEN, In the office of the Librarian of Congress^ Washington, D. C. IP rcoi-34g2. BALTIMORE: ITS 6R0WTH A^D DEVELOPMENT,. EORGE CALVERT, the founder of Maryland, whileclerk in the Privy Council of Ergland, became a greatfavorite of James I. He was knighted and raisedto the Irish peerage as Baron of Baltimore, in thecounty of Longford, Ireland, and was known fromthis time forward as Sir George Calvert, first LordBaltimore. He visited in the year 1628 the colonyVirginia and received upon his return to Erglandfrom his sovereign the promise of a grant of terri-tory in the region which he had just visited, butbefore his Charter was signed he died, (April 15th,1632). leaving his titles and estates to his eldest son,Cecilius Calvert, II. Lord Baltimore. On June 20th, 1632, a Charter was issued as follows :All that part of the Peninsula lying in the part ofAmerica between the ocean on the east and the bay ofChesapeake on the west; divided from the residue there-of by a riglit line drawn from the promontory or headland called Watkins Point,situated upon the bay aforesaid, on the west, unto the main ocean on the e
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