Founder/Year: 1632Why was it established?: safe haven for English Catholics fleeing anti-Catholic persecution in Europe.Geographical features: mountains, hills and flat low areaPlantations: Chaptico Manor, Cheney's Delight, Cheney's Hazard, Cheney's HillPeople: The Colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. ... Steuart · George H. Steuart (planter), Planter. George Steuart
Traditionally, when we tell the story of “Colonial America,” we are talking about the English colonies along the Eastern seaboard. That story is incomplete–by the time Englishmen had begun to establish colonies in earnest, there were plenty of French, Spanish, Dutch and even Russian colonial outposts on the American continent–but the story of those 13 colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) is an important one. It was those colonies that came together to form the United States.