Samuel Chase was a Founding Father of the United States,signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland,and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1804,Chase was impeached by the House of Representatives on grounds of letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions,but was acquitted the following year by the Senate and remained in office. He is the only United States Supreme Court Justice to have ever been impeached.
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.
Samuel Ogle was the 16th,18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732,1733 to 1742,and 1746/1747 to 1752.
John Brice Jr. (1705–1766) was an early American settler and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland. He was a member of the Governor's Council,twice Mayor of Annapolis,and a chief justice in the colony's court. Two of his sons would in their turn become Mayors of Annapolis.
Horatio Sharpe was the 22nd proprietary governor of Maryland from 1753 to 1768 under the restored proprietary government of Maryland.
The Gazette,founded in 1727 as The Maryland Gazette,is one of the oldest newspapers in America. Its modern-day descendant,The Capital, was acquired by The Baltimore Sun Media Group in 2014. Previously,it was owned by the Capital Gazette Communications group,which published The Capital,Bowie Blade-News,Crofton-West County Gazette,and Capital Style Magazine.
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.
Daniel Dulany the Elder (1685–1753) was a 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 laid out the grievances associated with the taxation without representation argument,it has been described as "the ablest effort of this kind produced in America".
Stephen De Lancey was a lawyer and political figure in New York state and Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1784 to 1789.
George Hume Steuart,(1700–1784) was a Scottish physician,tobacco planter,and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland. Born in Perthshire,Steuart emigrated to Maryland in around 1721,where he benefited from proprietarial patronage and was appointed to a number of colonial offices,eventually becoming a wealthy landowner with estates in both Maryland and Scotland,and serving two terms as mayor of Annapolis. However,he was forced by the outbreak of the American Revolution to decide whether to remain loyal to the Crown or to throw in his lot with the American rebels. In 1775 Steuart sailed to Scotland,deciding at age 75 that "he could not turn rebel in his old age". He remained there until his death in 1784.
William Paca was a Founding Father of the United States who was a signatory to the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence. He was a Maryland delegate to the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress,governor of Maryland,and a district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Benedict Swingate Calvert was a planter,politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert,5th Baron Baltimore,the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751). His mother's identity is not known,though one source speculates that she was Melusina von der Schulenburg,Countess of Walsingham. As he was illegitimate,he was not able to inherit his father's title or estates,which passed instead to his half brother Frederick Calvert,6th Baron Baltimore (1731–1771). Benedict Calvert spent most of his life as a politician,judge and planter in Maryland,though Frederick,by contrast,never visited the colony. Calvert became wealthy through proprietarial patronage and became an important colonial official,but he would lose his offices and his political power,though not his land and wealth,during the American Revolution.
Then Province of Maryland had been a British / English colony since 1632,when Sir George Calvert,first Baron of Baltimore and Lord Baltimore (1579-1632),received a charter and grant from King Charles I of England and first created a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World,with his son,Cecilius Calvert (1605-1675),the second Lord Baltimore equipping and sending over the first colonists to the Chesapeake Bay region in March 1634. The first signs of rebellion against the mother country occurred in 1765,when the tax collector Zachariah Hood was injured while landing at the second provincial capital of Annapolis docks,arguably the first violent resistance to British taxation in the colonies. After a decade of bitter argument and internal discord,Maryland declared itself a sovereign state in 1776. The province was one of the Thirteen Colonies of British America to declare independence from Great Britain and joined the others in signing a collective Declaration of Independence that summer in the Second Continental Congress in nearby Philadelphia. Samuel Chase,William Paca,Thomas Stone,and Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed on Maryland's behalf.
The Steuart family of Maryland was a prominent political family in the early history of Maryland. The Steuarts,of Scottish descent,have their origins in Perthshire,Scotland. The family grew wealthy in the early 18th century under the patronage of the Calvert family,proprietors of the colony of Maryland,but their wealth and status was much reduced during the American Revolution,and the American Civil War.
Elizabeth Calvert was the daughter of Maryland Governor Captain Charles Calvert and Rebecca Gerard,and a wealthy heiress in colonial Maryland. Her parents died when she was young,leaving her their substantial fortune. In 1748,aged 17,she married her cousin Benedict Swingate Calvert,a Loyalist politician and planter and the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert,5th Baron Baltimore. Benedict's connections to the ruling Calvert family allowed him to benefit from considerable proprietarial patronage,until the American Revolution saw the overthrow of British rule and the end of Calvert power in Maryland. Benedict and Elizabeth had to pay triple taxes after the war's end but,unlike many loyalists,their lands and fortune remained unconfiscated.
Walter Dulany was a politician in Colonial Maryland,who was mayor of Annapolis from 1766 to 1767. His family house and land at Windmill Point later became the location for the United States Naval Academy.
William Steuart was a wealthy planter in colonial Maryland. He inherited the estate of Dodon in Anne Arundel County,Maryland,from his father,planter and politician George H. Steuart.
