Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County,Maryland,United States,located approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of Hagerstown. The population was 705 at the 2010 census.
Sir Robert Eden,1st Baronet,of Maryland,23rd Proprietary Governor of Maryland was a British colonial official and the last Royal Governor of Maryland. Although a popular governor and an able administrator,Eden's authority was overthrown by the events of the American Revolution,and in June 1776 he was invited by the Maryland Convention to leave for England. Eden was well-regarded at home and in the same year,1776,he was made a baronet. He eventually returned to Maryland where he died in 1784 at the age of 42. He was buried in Annapolis and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son,Frederick,a noted author.
Elstree is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire,England. It is about 15 miles northwest of central London on the former A5 road,that follows the course of Watling Street. In 2011,its population was 5,110. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood,originally known simply as Elstree.
Frederick Calvert,6th Baron Baltimore,styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751,was an English nobleman and last in line of the Barons Baltimore. Although he exercised almost feudal power in the Province of Maryland,he never once set foot in the colony,and unlike his father,he took little interest in politics,treating his estates,including Maryland,largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant,often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock,a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert,but he left England soon afterwards,and never recovered from the public scandal that surrounded the trial. Dogged by the criticism and poor health,he contracted a fever and died in Naples at the age of 40.
Benjamin Tasker Sr. was the 21st Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753. He also occupied a number of other significant colonial offices,including,on various occasions,being elected Mayor of Annapolis.
Colonel Benjamin Tasker Jr. was a politician and slave trader in colonial Maryland,and Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755. He was the son of Benjamin Tasker Sr.,Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.
Colonel Nicholas Greenberry was the 4th Royal Governor of Maryland,and Commander of the Military Forces of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties.
William Stone,3rd Proprietary Governor of Province of Maryland was an early,English settler in Maryland. He was governor of the colony of Maryland from 1649 to 1655.
Thomas Bladen was a colonial governor in North America and politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1727 and 1741. He served as the 19th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1742 to 1747.
Nathaniel Rice was a British colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of North Carolina in 1734 and from 1752 to 1753.
Col. Charles Ridgely II,"Charles The Merchant" (1702–1772),of "Ridgely's Whim",was a Justice,planter,merchant,ironmaster,and member of the General Assembly of Maryland's lower chamber,House of Delegates and one of Baltimore County's commissioners. Charles II was the son of Charles Ridgely I,,,and Deborah Dorsey.
James Cornwallis,4th Earl Cornwallis was a British clergyman,and peer.
Thomas Greene of Bobbing,Kent,2nd Proprietary Governor of Maryland was an early settler of the Maryland colony and second Provincial Governor of the colony from 1647 to 1648.
Daniel Dulany the Elder (1685–1753) was a prominent lawyer and land-developer in colonial Maryland,who held a number of colonial offices. In 1722 Dulany wrote a pamphlet entitled The Right of the Inhabitants of Maryland,to the Benefit of the English Laws,asserting the rights of Marylanders over the Proprietary Government.
Daniel Dulany the Younger was a Maryland Loyalist politician,Mayor of Annapolis,and an influential American lawyer in the period immediately before the American Revolution. His pamphlet Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies,which argued against taxation without representation,has been described as "the ablest effort of this kind produced in America".
Whitehall is a colonial home that was built beginning in 1764 near Annapolis in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland by Horatio Sharpe,then the provincial governor of the British colony of Maryland.
Matilda Ridout Edgar was a Canadian historian and feminist. She was born Matilda Ridout,became Matilda Edgar by marriage,and became Lady Edgar in 1898 when her husband was knighted. The mother of nine children,she turned to historical research and writing when in her forties. She published three books in her lifetime and was working on a fourth when she died. She was active in a number of Toronto-based societies and in her later years was a strong advocate of women's causes.
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