Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the county seat of Anne Arundel County and its only incorporated city. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River,25 miles (40 km) south of Baltimore and about 30 miles (50 km) east of Washington,D.C.,Annapolis forms part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The 2020 census recorded its population as 40,812,an increase of 6.3% since 2010.
Charles Carroll,known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III,was an American politician,planter,and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the only Catholic signatory of the Declaration and the longest surviving,dying 56 years after its signing.
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.
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.
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.
Fort Severn,in present-day Annapolis,Maryland,was built in 1808 on the same site as an earlier American Revolutionary War fort of 1776. Although intended to guard Annapolis harbor from British attack during the War of 1812,it never saw action. The United States Navy acquired Fort Severn and two other military bases from the United States Army on 19 October 1845,for the purpose of housing the new onshore United States Naval Academy. The academy used the structure for classrooms until its demolition in 1909.
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.
John Randall was an architect,American Revolutionary War soldier and officer,and was an early 19th-century mayor of Annapolis,Anne Arundel County,Maryland. He was also the Collector of the Port of Annapolis,which included responsibility for fortifying the harbor.
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".
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.
Henry Harrison was a merchant and politician,and the mayor of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,1762–1763.
The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia,and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies.
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.
Michael MacNamara was an Irish-American lawyer and politician in Colonial Maryland,who had three terms as mayor of Annapolis. He was a Loyalist,his interests aligned with those of the ruling Calvert family,the Barons Baltimore,whose rule was overthrown following the American Revolution.
Ogle Hall is a historic building in Annapolis,Maryland,Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Inventory #AA-530. It is also known as the United States Naval Academy Alumni House.
Ann Jennings Johnson was the inaugural First Lady of Maryland and wife of the first non-colonial Governor of Maryland,Thomas Johnson.
