THE BASIC INFORMATION
The climate was mostly warm with short winters and long growing seasons, and the soil was great for farming. The colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore ( whose name was Sir George Calvert) in 1632. Maryland was in the eastern Woodlands and the Powhatan and Susquehanna tribe inhabited the area. The colony was ran for business but Sir George Calvert had other ideas in mind. He also ran the colony for religious freedom. The colony was also made for Roman Catholics. The colony of Maryland was named after: Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. In 1691, Sir Lionel Copley was appointed by King William to serve as Maryland's first royal governor. The religious freedom that had characterized the colony during its days as a proprietary colony disappeared. Maryland remained a royal colony for 26 years. Most of the residents of the Maryland colony lived along the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland was one of the most populous and successful of the 13 colonies. Growing tobacco was a big and thriving business in Maryland, and it brought great wealth to many of the colonists. In 1760, Maryland had a population of 160,000, of which about 50,000 were slaves.