Quinta wrote" >>>There is a large print out on it from a MD site. I think it was almost a >>>1/2 thick when I printed it out. Sorry I trashed it after I read it. If I >>>can find a link I will share.<<< Do share, I for one would be interested in reading it. As federal emplyees, we lived in Virginia and in Pennsylvania, but in our twilight years we recently moved here to St. Mary's County, MD to be near family, again. We are descendents through my maternal grandmother of DARNALL,. ROBEY, McQUEEN, McDANIEL, STEWART, FOSTER & others from the CALVERT Colony settling at St. Mary's City, MD. St. Mary's County formed in 1637 is the parent county, which included present day St. Mary's County, Calvert County, Charles County, and part of Prince George's County. Bare in mind that this was a Catholic Colony, when established. You will read more about that in the Maryland State History. below. ******************* http://www.genealogyinc.com/maps/uscf.htm U.S. County Formation Maps, 1643 - present (Author of Collection is Ancestry.com) Here then, was where I had to start in Colonial Maryland -- at the beginning, where my John Darnall (3rd generation) md Mary Ann McDaniel.each was born in Charles Co., Maryland, as part of the Catholic Calverts Colony, which started in 1634, Ark & Dove stopped at Saint Clements Island and the Colony was under the Lord Baltimore. a Title, for the "governing" CALVERT -- a feduel system for Maryland's first Colony. My John Darnall was a descendent of the Immigrant Edward Darnall, who came as an Indentured Servant from England. and he did very well in Life, indeed. He was kinfolk to the John & Henry Darnall, Overseers for Lord Baltimore. This time, I shall just concentrate on the Calvert's Colony, the first English Colony in America. If you want more info, write to me personally, in order that we do not get out of line as this is QUAKER-ROOTS, so must pertain to problems as the impact upon the Quakers. 1) http://www.negenealogy.com/md/md_maps/md_cf.htm Maryland County Formation Map 2) I shall post the Maryland State History found with these Maps, as well as post the material in the URL -- Read which ever! http://www.negenealogy.com/md/md_state/history.htm Maryland State History! In 1632 Maryland was granted to George Calvert, formerly secretary of state under King James I of England, but he could not hold public office after he espoused Catholicism in 1625. The Maryland Charter was issued to George's son Cecilius alias Cecil, Second Baron Baltimore, in 1632, but it was Cecil's younger brother Leonard who brought the first colonists aboard the Ark and the Dove, landing in March 1634 at St. Clements Island near the future capital at St. Mary's. Named for Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, the colony was called Maria's Land or Mariland. Agriculture and trading were quickly established with the help of laborers who worked off their passage to the new land, friendly Native Americans, and slaves from Africa. The Europeans had good relations with the original inhabitants, although by the end of the century many had perished from disease, war, or liquor, and others were forced north or in some cases integrated with other groups. A significant point in Maryland's history was the passage of the Act of Toleration in 1649, which encouraged settlement by many non-conformists, not only Catholics (in Calvert, Charles, and St. Marys counties) but also dissenters from Virginia (in Anne Arundel County) and Friends (Quakers). The Protestant Revolution in England, however, spread unrest to Maryland, and the proprietary government was overthrown by the Crown in 1689. The Anglican church was established as the state church of Maryland, and the capital moved to a more central location at Annapolis. With the conversion of the young Lord Baltimore to Protestantism, the proprietorship was restored in 1715. In 1781 Catholics were disfranchised and barred from public office, but Jesuit Fathers continued to quietly serve a growing Catholic populace despite laws forbidding them to celebrate the Mass or perform the sacraments. A number of early Maryland gentry unions occurred through Catholic-Protestant marriages. The earliest settlements congregated in southern Maryland, on the Western Shore, in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, and St. Marys counties. By 1695, this included Prince Georges County, which until 1748 stretched from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Virginia fur traders had settled at Kent Island prior to Calvert's immigrants' arrival in 1634. On Maryland's Eastern Shore, Somerset County bordered Virginia, from which colony came the first settlers, soon joined by emigrants from St. Marys and new arrivals from Britain. By the 1680s Baltimore County, along the waterways of the Patapsco and Gunpowder rivers, was seated. Because of an uncertain border, evidence of many settlers in western Kent and southern and western Sussex counties in Delaware are found in Maryland records until the time of the Revolutionary War. In the eighteenth century settlers left the Chesapeake region and began building homes among the hills and valleys of western Maryland. Beginning in the 1730s, Germans from bordering Pennsylvania counties poured into what were then Baltimore and Frederick counties; some Quaker groups came about this time from New Jersey. In the mid-1700s many settlers came from Pennsylvania, and servants, felons, and Jacobite rebels numbered heavily among the eighteenth-century emigrants from Britain, with the Jacobites sold as laborers. Migrations out of Maryland in the eighteenth century included Catholics from St. Marys into Kentucky, and Moravians, most of whom went to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the 1760s to obtain free land. Other Germans, Ulster-Scots, and Quakers went south to Virginia and the Carolinas. With the completion of the National Road in 1818, migration westward through and out of Maryland was greatly increased. The building of the country's first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, as well as a canal system along the Potomac River, also increased mobility within and out of the state. Although British warships visited the Chesapeake in 1777, and there was a sizable number of Loyalists among the populace, no major battles were fought in Maryland during the American Revolution. The state was, however, the site for much action during the War of 1812. Although loyal to the Union during the Civil War, there was much sympathy for the South in southern Western Shore counties and among the upper classes, and many fought for the Confederacy. After the war, many black Southerners fled to Maryland from their devastated homes. About this same time began a large influx of Germans and eastern Europeans through Baltimore, one of the major eastern ports. ************************ For more information: See MDGenWeb and St. Mary's County GenWeb page. An aside note: Be aware that during the Revolutionary War Era, that MD, VA, PA had disputed lands; and that after the Rev. War, Virginia lost land to both West Virginia & Kentucky. John & Mary Ann (McDaniel) Darnall, b. Charles Co., MD>Fredrick Co., MD>Washington, Co., PA>Montgomery Co., KY for a Rev. War Land Grant. Violet Moore Guy 04/20/2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "quinta" <quinta@quik.com> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:07 PM Subject: RE: [Q-R] Delaware-Penn-N Carolina Quakers > Don't forget they were taking the land from the Quakers in MD even when > they had paid for it years before. There were a lot of religious > problems. The marriages had to be held in the official church and many > pastors had legal problems when they married some one in a non official > church. are. From what I read the freedom > from religion was a non starter in some states. First MD recruted the > Quakers to come and then (some years after cleared and improved) wanted > to take the land for political supporters. Sounds like today huh? As I > remember it got pretty bad in about 1750. There was a tar and feather of > one of the people who disposed several of the owners. After some two to > five years a lot of them moved south. The legal maneuvering did not > work. They lost the land. > Quinta > > -----Original Message----- > From: ElizHfic@aol.com [mailto:ElizHfic@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:43 PM > To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Delaware-Penn-N Carolina Quakers > > In a message dated 4/19/2005 9:58:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, > eleen@netutah.com writes: > Do you know WHY and WHEN your > family migrated to North Carolina? > > > This was a very popular time to go "south" Many Pennsylvanians went to > VA and > NC as the frontier opened up. Free land or much cheaper land was a big > draw. > If you are searching the Philly area try Pa Old Chester list where there > are > tons of resources on the area and migration and Quakers. > Eliz > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > >