Upper Marlboro,officially the Town of Upper Marlboro,is the seat of Prince George's County,Maryland. As of the 2020 census,the population within the town limits was 652,although Greater Upper Marlboro,which covers a large area outside the town limits,is many times larger.
Charles Calvert,3rd Baron Baltimore,inherited the colony of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father,Cecil Calvert,2nd Baron Baltimore,(1605–1675). He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24. However,Charles left Maryland for England in 1684 and would never return. The events following the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 would cost Calvert his title to Maryland;in 1689 the royal charter to the colony was withdrawn,leading to direct rule by the British Crown. Calvert's political problems were largely caused by his Roman Catholic faith which was at odds with the established Church of England.
Southern Maryland is a geographical,cultural and historic region in Maryland composed of the state's southernmost counties on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the state of Maryland,the region includes all of Calvert,Charles,and St. Mary's counties and the southern portions of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties. It is largely coterminous with the region of Maryland that is part of the Washington metropolitan area. Portions of the region are also part of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area and the California-Lexington Park Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 Census,the region had a population of 373,177. The largest community in Southern Maryland is Waldorf,with a population of 81,410 as of the 2020 Census.
George Plater III was an American planter,lawyer,and statesman from Saint Mary's County,Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780,and briefly served as the sixth Governor of Maryland in 1791 and 1792.
Colonel Nicholas Greenberry was the 4th Royal Governor of Maryland,and Commander of the Military Forces of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties.
Lewis Morris,chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey,was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York City.
John Coode is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He participated in four separate uprisings and briefly served as Maryland's governor (1689–1691) as the 1st Leader of the Protestant Associators.
Colonel Thomas Brooke Jr. of Brookefield was President of the Council in Maryland and acting 13th Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the son of Major Thomas Brooke Sr. and Esquire (1632–1676) and his second wife Eleanor Hatton (1642–1725) who later remarried Col. Henry Darnall (1645-1711).
Major Thomas Brooke Sr.,Esq. was a colonial lawyer,planter and politician of Calvert County,Maryland,where he served in the appointed positions of Burgess,High Sheriff and Chief Justice.
Edward Lloyd II was the 11th Royal Governor of Maryland from 1709 to 1714. He attained the rank of Major General of the Eastern Shore militia.
St. Barnabas Church,also known as St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church,Leeland,was built in Leeland,Maryland,and was established in 1704 as the parish church of Queen Anne Parish which had been established that same year. Because of its location in one of the richest tobacco-producing regions in Colonial Maryland,the small church has been a cultural hub for southern Maryland from early colonial times,through the American Revolution,Civil War,and Reconstruction. The church holds some highly significant art and was the scene of a fiery anti-revolutionary showdown that was close to erupting in violence.
Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia,serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle Edward Bennett's business,managing his plantation known as Bennett's Welcome in Warrascoyack. Two decades later,Bennett immigrated to the Maryland colony with his family,and settled on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County.
The Chaptico,also known as the Cecomocomoco,were a group of Native Americans who lived along the Southwestern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in what is today St. Mary's County,Maryland. They were loosely dominated by the Patuxent in the pre-colonial time. While little is known about their culture,the Chaptico spoke an Algonquian language that was possibly similar to their Patuxent neighbors,who they absorbed in the 1690s.
Colonel Henry Darnall was a planter,military officer and politician in colonial Maryland. Darnall served as the Proprietary Agent in the colony for Lord Baltimore;he also briefly served as Deputy Governor of Maryland. During the Protestant Revolution of 1689,his proprietarial army was defeated by the Protestant army of John Coode,and he was stripped of his numerous colonial offices as a result. Darnall died in 1711,leaving the bulk of his substantial estates to his son,Henry Darnall II.
Philip Darnall,was an English barrister. His son Henry Darnall,(1645–1711),emigrated to North America,where he became the Proprietary Agent of George Calvert,the first Lord Baltimore,(1579–1632),and George Calvert's son,Cecilius Calvert,second Lord Baltimore,(1605–1675) and the founder of Maryland.
Colonel William Digges was a prominent planter,soldier and politician in the Colony of Virginia and Province of Maryland. The eldest son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5),who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for two decades but died shortly before Bacon's Rebellion,Digges fled to Maryland where he married Lord Calvert's stepdaughter and served on the Maryland Proprietary Council until losing his office in 1689 during the Protestant Revolution,when a Puritan revolt upset the Calvert Proprietorship. His eldest son Edward sold his primary Virginia plantation to his uncle Dudley Digges. It is now within Naval Station Yorktown. His former Maryland estate,Warburton Manor,is now within Fort Washington Park. Two additional related men with the same name served in the Virginia General Assembly,both descended from this man's uncle and his grandson Cole Digges (burgess):William Digges (burgess) and his nephew and son-in-law William Digges Jr. both represented now-defunct Warwick County,Virginia.
Colonel Martin Bladen (1680–1746) was a British politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1727 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1746. He was a Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations,a Privy Councillor in Ireland and Comptroller of the Mint.
Henry Darnall II (1682-1759) was a wealthy Roman Catholic planter in Colonial Maryland. He was the son of the politician and planter Henry Darnall,who was the Proprietary Agent of Charles Calvert,3rd Baron Baltimore,and served for a time as Deputy Governor of the Province. During the Protestant Revolution of 1689,Henry Darnall I's proprietarial army was defeated by the Puritan army of Colonel John Coode,and he was stripped of his numerous colonial offices. After his father's death,Henry Darnall II did not enjoy political power in Maryland,but he remained wealthy thanks to his family's extensive estates. He married twice,fathering many children. His eldest son Henry Darnall III (c1702-c1783) inherited the bulk of what remained of his estates,and one of his grandchildren,Daniel Carroll,would become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A small portion of Darnall's former property,now called Darnall's Chance,can still be visited today.
Eleanor Darnall Carroll (1703-1796),was a wealthy heiress in colonial Maryland. She was the wife of Daniel Carroll,a politician and wealthy planter. Their son Daniel Carroll became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States;their son John Carroll became the Archbishop of Baltimore and founder of Georgetown University.
St.Leger Codd was a militia officer,lawyer,planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia and the Colony of Maryland who sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly.
