USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cecil (or Cecilius in Latin) Calvert was still a young man of 26 years when his father, George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, died in 1632. Upon his father’s death, Cecil became the Second Baron of Baltimore and inherited the colonies and lands owned by his father.

Detailed explanation-2: -Having been, in effect, secretary of state to King James I, George Calvert was given the title Baron of Baltimore in 1625, after petitioning the king for a grant of land north of the Potomac River. The Charter of Maryland was granted in June 1632, shortly after his death in April of the same year.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first English settlement in Southern Maryland dates to somewhere between 1637 and 1642, although the county was actually organized in 1654. Established by Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, English gentry were the first settlers, followed by Puritans, Huguenots, Quakers, and Scots.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Maryland. Biography: Born: August 8, 1605, in Kent County, England; first son.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lord Baltimore, also known as George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, was interested in the English colonization of the New World to establish a refuge for England’s Catholic population. Calvert was instrumental in the British settlement of Avalon, located off of the coast of Canada’s Newfoundland.