Lord Baltimore issued his letter inviting French Huguenots (and other persecuted Protestants) to come settle in Maryland in 1733. Too late to have enticed our Edward over. There were however about 20 Frenchmen "naturalized" in Maryland in the 3rd quarter of the 1600s, including including a few in Dorchester County such as Antoine LeCompte, and at least on in Cecil county. There is also a "law" (or something passed) in the mid 1600s stating that the various Swedes, French, Dutch, Italians and other foreigners in Maryland may now own property, and recognizes that they had been doing so de facto already.