The Colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland

Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S...

. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia, and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies. Many of the early settlers came from the West Midlands

West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

 in England, although the Maryland families were composed of a variety of European nationalities, e.g. French, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Swedish, in addition to English.

Maryland was uniquely created as a colony for Catholic aristocracy and gentry, but Anglicanism

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...

 eventually came to dominate, partly through influence from neighboring Virginia.

Charles I of England

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

 granted the province palatinate

County palatine

A county palatine or palatinate is an area ruled by an hereditary nobleman possessing special authority and autonomy from the rest of a kingdom or empire. The name derives from the Latin adjective palatinus, "relating to the palace", from the noun palatium, "palace"...

 status under Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, 1st Proprietor and 1st Proprietary Governor of Maryland, 9th Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland , was an English peer who was the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland. He received the proprietorship after the death of his father, George Calvert, the...

. The foundational charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor for Maryland.

The first areas of colonization were on the Patuxent River

Patuxent River

The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. There are three main river drainages for central Maryland: the Potomac River to the west passing through Washington D.C., the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between...

 and up along the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West...

 near and around current St. Mary's and Charles

Charles County, Maryland

Charles County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland.As of 2010, the population was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for Charles Calvert , third Baron Baltimore....

 counties.

Founders and scions

Bowie family

Bowie (surname)

Bowie is an Irish and Scottish surname. The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname buidhe, meaning "yellow", "fair-haired". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname Ó Buadhaigh; this surname means "descendant of Buadhach". The personal name Buadhach means "victorious"...

• John Bowie, Sr.
  John Bowie, Sr.
  John Bowie, Sr. was born in Scotland in 1688 and died in Maryland in April 1759. He was the first of the Bowie family to arrive in colonial Maryland, emigrating from Scotland between 1705 and 1706 and settling near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland on the Patuxent River...
  
  
• Oden Bowie
  Oden Bowie
  Oden Bowie , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 34th Governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Robert Bowie
  Robert Bowie
  Robert Bowie served as the 11th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States, from 1803 to 1806, and from 1811 to 1812....
  
  
• Thomas Fielder Bowie
  Thomas Fielder Bowie
  Thomas Fielder Bowie was an American politician.Born in Nottingham, Maryland near Queen Anne, in Prince George's County, Maryland Bowie attended Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's County, Maryland and Princeton College. In 1826, Bowie was elected to the New York Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa...
  
  
• Walter Bowie
  Walter Bowie
  Walter Bowie was an American politician.-Biography:Born in Mattaponi, near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland, Bowie attended Reverend John Eversfield's School near Nottingham, the common schools in Annapolis, and Craddock’s School near Baltimore...
  
  
• Captain William Bowie
  Captain William Bowie
  Captain William Bowie was an early colonist in the Province of Maryland and an American Revolutionary, a member of the Assembly of Freemen, a delegate to the Annapolis Convention .-Early life:...
  
  
• William Duckett Bowie
  William Duckett Bowie
  William Duckett Bowie , was an American politician. The eldest child of William Bowie and Kitty Beanes Duckett, he was born at Fairview Plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland.-Career and Wealth:...
  
  

Brice family

• John Brice, Jr.
  John Brice, Jr.
  John Brice, Jr. 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.-Early life:John was born in...
  
  
• John Brice III
  John Brice III
  John Brice III was an American lawyer, businessman and political leader from Annapolis, Maryland. He served on the Maryland state council and as mayor of Annapolis.-Early life:...
  
  
• James Brice
  James Brice
  James Brice was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Annapolis, Maryland. He was Governor of Maryland in 1792, and one of the largest land owners on the east coast....
  
  

Brooke family

• Robert Brooke, Sr.
  Robert Brooke, Sr.
  Robert Brooke, Sr. was a colonial Governor of Maryland.- Early career :Robert was born in Whitemarsh, Southampton on June 23, 1602, and matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford University on April 28, 1618. He received the degree of B.A. July 6, 1620, and M.A. April 20, 1624...
  
  
• Thomas Brooke, Sr.
  Thomas Brooke, Sr.
  Major Thomas Brooke, Sr., Esq. was a colonial lawyer, planter and politician of Calvert County, Maryland, where he served in the appointed positions of Burgess, High Sheriff and Chief Justice.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Thomas Brooke, Jr.
  Thomas Brooke, Jr.
  Colonel Thomas Brooke, Jr., of Brookefield was President of the Council in Maryland and acting 13th Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was the son of Major Thomas Brooke, Esq. and his second wife Eleanor Hatton .In 1720 he was elected President of the Council, and acting Governor of Maryland...
  
  

Calvert family

Baron Baltimore

Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore Manor in County Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1625 for George Calvert and became extinct on the death of the sixth Baron in 1771. The title was held by several members of the Calvert family who were proprietors of the palatinates...

• George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
  George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
  Sir George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, 8th Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland was an English politician and colonizer. He achieved domestic political success as a Member of Parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I...
  
  
• Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, 1st Proprietor and 1st Proprietary Governor of Maryland, 9th Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland , was an English peer who was the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland. He received the proprietorship after the death of his father, George Calvert, the...
  
  
• Leonard Calvert
  Leonard Calvert
  Leonard Calvert was the 1st Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first proprietary of the Province of Maryland...
  
  
• Phillip Calvert (governor)
  Phillip Calvert (governor)
  Phillip Calvert was the 5th Proprietary Governor of Maryland during a brief period in 1660 or 1661.He was appointed by the royally chartered proprietor of Maryland, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, as a caretaker to replace Josias Fendall.-Life:He came to Maryland on the first expedition...
  
  
• Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, 2nd Proprietor and 6th and 9th Proprietary Governor of Maryland , inherited the colony in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24...
  
  
• Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
  Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
  Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore by Jane Lowe. He became his father's heir upon the death of his elder brother, Cecil in 1681...
  
  
• Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 3rd Proprietor and 17th Proprietary Governor of Maryland, FRS was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland...
  
  
• Benedict Leonard Calvert
  Benedict Leonard Calvert
  The Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert was the 15th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his older brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore . He was named after his father, Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore...
  
  
• Benedict Swingate Calvert
  Benedict Swingate Calvert
  Benedict Swingate Calvert was a Maryland Loyalist during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland , and may have been the grandson of King George I of Great Britain...
  
  
• Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
  Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
  Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, 4th Proprietor of Maryland was an English nobleman and last in the line of Barons Baltimore...
  
  
• Henry Harford
  Henry Harford
  Henry Harford, 5th Proprietor of Maryland was the last proprietary owner of the British colony of Maryland. He was born in 1758 the eldest but illegitimate son of Frederick Calvert 6th Baron Baltimore, and his mistress Hester Whelan...
  
  
• Eleanor Calvert
  Eleanor Calvert
  Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart was a prominent member of the Calvert family of Maryland. Upon her marriage to John Parke Custis, she became the daughter-in-law of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and the stepdaughter-in-law of George Washington...
  
  
• Charles Benedict Calvert
  Charles Benedict Calvert
  Charles Benedict Calvert was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861–1863. He was an early backer of the inventors of the telegraph, and in 1856 he founded the Maryland Agricultural College, the first agricultural research college in America, now part of...
  
  
• Charles Calvert (governor)
  Charles Calvert (governor)
  Captain Charles Calvert was the 14th Proprietary Governor of Maryland in 1720, at a time when the Calvert family had recently regained control of their proprietary colony. He was appointed Governor by his cousin Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, who in 1721 came into his inheritance...
  
  

Carroll family

Carroll family

The Carroll family of Maryland is a prominent political family in the History of the United States, or, more correctly, a group of distantly related families...

• Charles Carroll the Settler
  Charles Carroll the Settler
  Charles Carroll , sometimes called Charles Carroll the Settler to differentiate him from his son and grandson, was a wealthy lawyer and planter in colonial Maryland...
  
  
• Charles Carroll of Annapolis
  Charles Carroll of Annapolis
  Charles Carroll of Annapolis was a wealthy Maryland planter and lawyer. His father was Charles Carroll the Settler, an immigrant to Maryland who had arrived in the colony in 1689 with a commission as Attorney General, and had accumulated a vast fortune, emerging as Maryland's wealthiest citizen...
  
  
• Charles Carroll (barrister)
  Charles Carroll (barrister)
  Charles Carroll was an American lawyer and statesman from Annapolis, Maryland. He was the builder of the Baltimore Colonial home Mount Clare , and a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777....
  
  
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as United States Senator for Maryland...
  
  
• Daniel Carroll
  Daniel Carroll
  Daniel Carroll was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a prominent member of one of the United States' great colonial Catholic families, whose members included his younger brother Archbishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States and...
  
  
• John Carroll (bishop)
  John Carroll (bishop)
  John Carroll, was the first Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States — serving as the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is also known as the founder of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States, and St...
  
  
• John Lee Carroll
  John Lee Carroll
  John Lee Carroll , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 37th Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1880.-Early life:...
  
  
• Thomas King Carroll
  Thomas King Carroll
  Thomas King Carroll served as the 21st Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1830 to 1831. He also served as a judge, and in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1816 to 1817.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anna Ella Carroll
  Anna Ella Carroll
  Anna Ella Carroll was an American politician, pamphleteer and lobbyist...
  
  
• James Carroll (Maryland politician)
• Samuel S. Carroll
  Samuel S. Carroll
  Samuel Spriggs "Red" Carroll was a career officer in the United States Army who rose to the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War...
  
  

Chase family

• Samuel Chase
  Samuel Chase
  Samuel Chase was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a "firebrand" states-righter and revolutionary...
  
  
• Jeremiah Chase
  Jeremiah Chase
  Jeremiah Townley Chase was an American lawyer and jurist from Annapolis, Maryland. He served as a delegate for Maryland in the Continental Congress of 1783 and 1784, and for many years was chief justice of the state’s court of appeals.-Early life :Chase was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Richard...
  
  

Clarke family
Contee family

• Thomas Contee
  Thomas Contee
  Col. Thomas Contee of "Brookefield", near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland. American Patriot, militia man, politician, planter.-Married:Thomas married Sarah Fendall in 1751 in Charles County, Maryland...
  
  
• Benjamin Contee
  Benjamin Contee
  Benjamin Contee was an American Episcopal priest and statesman from Maryland. He was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Confederation Congress, and member of the first United States House of Representatives.-Early life:Contee was the son of Col. Thomas Contee and...
  
  

Compton family

• Henry Compton
• Barnes Compton
  Barnes Compton
  Barnes Compton was a wealthy planter who became a politician at the state level before the Civil War. He was appointed as Maryland State Treasurer, serving 1872-1885. He was elected to the US House of Representatives from the fifth congressional district of Maryland...
  
  

Crossland family
Darnall family

• Henry Darnall
  Henry Darnall
  Colonel Henry Darnall , was a wealthy Maryland Roman Catholic planter, the Proprietary Agent of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore . He served as Deputy Governor in Maryland. During the Protestant Revolution of 1689, his proprietarial army was defeated by the Puritan army of Colonel John Coode,...
  
  
• Philip Darnall
  Philip Darnall
  Philip Darnall , was an English lawyer, and the first member of the Darnall family to emigrate to Maryland. Philip Darnall was a relative of and secretary to George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, and soon became one of the wealthiest men in Maryland....
  
  

Dorsey family

• Hon. John Dorsey
• Major Edward Dorsey

Dulany family

• Daniel Dulany the Elder
  Daniel Dulany the Elder
  Daniel Dulany the Elder was a prominent lawyer and land-developer in colonial Maryland, who held a number of colonial offices. In 1722 Dulany write a pamphlet entitled The Right of the Inhabitants of Maryland, to the Benefit of the English Laws, asserting the rights of Marylanders over the...
  
  
• Daniel Dulany the Younger
  Daniel Dulany the Younger
  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...
  
  
• Walter Dulany
  Walter Dulany
  Walter Dulany was a politician in Colonial Maryland, who served as 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.-Early life:...
  
  

Duvall family

• Mareen Duvall
  Mareen Duvall
  Mareen Duvall was a French Huguenot and an early American settler.-Background:He was born Marin duVal, at Nantes, France in 1625 and arrived in the Province of Maryland on August 28, 1650...
  
  
• Gabriel Duvall
  Gabriel Duvall
  Gabriel Duvall was an American politician and jurist.-Career:Born in Prince George's County, Maryland, Duvall read law to enter the Bar in 1778. He married Florence Adams Washburne , the daughter of General Henry Gilman Washburne and Florence Adams Washburne, on 1778...
  
  
• Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
  
  

Eden Baronets

Eden Baronets

The Eden Baronetcy, of West Auckland in the County of Durham, and the Eden Baronetcy, of Maryland in North America, are two titles in the Baronetage of England and Baronetage of Great Britain respectively that have been united under a single holder since 1844.The Eden Baronetcy of West Auckland was...

• Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland
• Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet

Fairfax family

Lord Fairfax of Cameron

thumb|Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of CameronLord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax Baronets of The Holmes are members of another branch...

• Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Fendall family

Fendall family

The Fendall family was a prominent American political family that had its beginnings when Josias Fendall , immigrated to Maryland in the early 1650s. He was appointed the 4th proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1656-1660.-Lineage:...

• Josias Fendall
  Josias Fendall
  Lieutenant-General Josias Fendall, Esq. , was the 4th Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was born in England, and came to the Province of Maryland. He was the progenitor of the Fendall family in America....
  
  

Greene family

• Governor Thomas Greene

Griffith family
Hanson family

• John Hanson
  John Hanson
  John Hanson was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. After serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland, in 1779 Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress...
  
  
• Alexander Contee Hanson
  Alexander Contee Hanson
  Alexander Contee Hanson was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate....
  
  

Howard family

• John Eager Howard
  John Eager Howard
  John Eager Howard was an American soldier and politician from Maryland. He was elected as governor of the state in 1789, and served three one-year terms. He also was elected to the Continental Congress, Congress of the United States and the US Senate. He was born in and died in Baltimore County...
  
  
• George Howard (Governor of Maryland)
  George Howard (Governor of Maryland)
  George Howard was the 22nd Governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1831 to 1833. Howard was well known as a fervent anti-Jacksonian during his term in office. He was the only son of a governor to have been elected governor.-Biography:He was born on November 21, 1789, in the...
  
  
• Benjamin Chew Howard
  Benjamin Chew Howard
  Benjamin Chew Howard was an American congressman and the fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1843 to 1861....
  
  

Jenifer family

• Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
  Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
  Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer was a politician and a Founding Father of the United States. Born long before conflicts with Great Britain emerged, he was a leader for many years in Maryland's colonial government...
  
  
• Daniel Jenifer
  Daniel Jenifer
  Daniel Jenifer was an American lawyer and statesman from Charles County, Maryland. He graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy. He represented Maryland's 1st Congressional district in the U.S. Congress in 1831–1833 and the 7th district from 1835–1841. From 1841–1845 he served as U.S....
  
  

Lee family

Lee family

The Lee family of the United States is a historically significant Virginia and Maryland political family, whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. Through the past few hundred years it was believed that Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia descended...

• Blenheim branch
  Blenheim (Maryland)
  "Blenheim", was the once historic estate of the Lees in Charles County, Maryland. It was owned by Capt. Philip Lee, Sr., Hon., Esq. ....
  
  
  • Philip Lee, Sr.
    Philip Lee, Sr.
    Captain the Hon. Philip Lee, the Elder , was a Captain, Justice of the Peace, and Sheriff in colonial Maryland.Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, probably at “Paradise” in 1681, the son of Colonel Richard Lee II, Esquire , by his marriage to Laetitia Corbin...
    
    
  • Thomas Sim Lee
    Thomas Sim Lee
    Thomas Sim Lee was an American planter and statesman of Frederick County, Maryland. Although not a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation or the US Constitution, he was an important participant in the process of their creation...
    
    

Lloyd family

• Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland)
  Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland)
  Major General Edward Lloyd was the 11th Royal Governor of Maryland from 1709 to 1714. He succeeded John Seymour, being elected President of the Council when the senior member of the council, Colonel Francis Jenkins, failed to assert his rights of seniority. Lloyd was succeeded by John Hart...
  
  
• Edward Lloyd (delegate)
  Edward Lloyd (delegate)
  Edward Lloyd IV was an American planter from Talbot County, Maryland. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Maryland in 1783 and 1784. In 1771 Lloyd purchased the Chase-Lloyd House in Annapolis, Maryland from Samuel Chase, and in 1790 he built Wye House on the family plantation at Wye...
  
  
• Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)
  Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)
  Edward Lloyd V served as the 13th Governor of Maryland from 1809 to 1811, and as a United States Senator from Maryland between 1819 and 1826. He also served as a U.S...
  
  
• Henry Lloyd (governor)
• James Lloyd (Maryland)
  James Lloyd (Maryland)
  James Lloyd was an American politician.Born at Farley near Chestertown, Maryland, Lloyd pursued classical studies and studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Kent County militia in 1776 and served during the American...
  
  

Mason family

Mason family

The Mason family of Virginia is a historically significant American political family whose prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics, business, and the military. The progenitor of the Mason family, George Mason I , arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on the ship Assurance in 1652...

• William Mason (1757–1818)
  William Mason (1757–1818)
  William Mason was a militiaman in the American Revolutionary War and a prominent Virginia planter. Mason was the son of George Mason, an American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.-Early life and education:Mason was born on 22 October 1757...
  
  

Ogle family

Ogle family

The Ogle family was prominent landed gentry in Northumberland from before the time of the Norman Conquest.-Origins:The earliest appearances of the family name was written Hoggel, Oggehill, Ogille and Oghill....

• Samuel Ogle
  Samuel Ogle
  Samuel Ogle was the 16th, 18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.-Background:...
  
  
• Benjamin Ogle
  Benjamin Ogle
  Benjamin Ogle was the ninth Governor of Maryland from 1798 to 1801.-Early life:The Ogle family was quite prominent for many centuries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, dating from the medieval period. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Benjamin Ogle was the son of former Provincial...
  
  

Paca family

• William Paca
  William Paca
  William Paca was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and later Governor of Maryland and a United States federal judge.-Early life:...
  
  

Peale family

Peale

Peale may refer to:People with the surname Peale:* Angelica Kauffmann Peale, daughter of Charles Willson Peale* Anna Claypoole Peale , American miniature painter, daughter of James Peale...

• Charles Willson Peale
  Charles Willson Peale
  Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, as well as establishing one of the first museums....
  
  
• James Peale
  James Peale
  James Peale was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale....
  
  
• Raphaelle Peale
  Raphaelle Peale
  Raphaelle Peale is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rembrandt Peale
  Rembrandt Peale
  Rembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...
  
  
• Rubens Peale
  Rubens Peale
  Rubens Peale was an American artist and museum director. Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale.-Life:...
  
  
• Titian Peale
  Titian Peale
  Titian Ramsay Peale was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth child and youngest son of noted American naturalist Charles Willson Peale.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anna Claypoole Peale
  Anna Claypoole Peale
  Anna Claypoole Peale was an American painter, specializing in portrait miniatures and still lifes....
  
  
• Charles Peale Polk
  Charles Peale Polk
  Charles Peale Polk was a renowned American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale.-Biography:...
  
  
• Margaretta Angelica Peale
  Margaretta Angelica Peale
  Margaretta Angelica Peale was an American painter, one of the Peale family of artists. The daughter of James Peale, she was the sister of Sarah Miriam Peale, Anna Claypoole Peale, and Maria Peale. She was taught by her father, and painted primarily still-lifes, many of which were copies of his...
  
  
• Sarah Miriam Peale
  Sarah Miriam Peale
  Sarah Miriam Peale was an American portrait painter, one of the notable family of artists descended from the miniaturist and still-life painter James Peale, who was her father. She is noted as a portrait painter, mainly of politicians and military figures...
  
  

Rodgers family

• John Rodgers (naval officer, War of 1812)
  John Rodgers (naval officer, War of 1812)
  John Rodgers was a senior naval officer in the United States Navy who served under six Presidents for nearly four decades during its formative years in the 1790s through the late 1830s, committing the greater bulk of his adult life to his country...
  
  
• John Rodgers (American Civil War naval officer)
• John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I)
  John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I)
  John Rodgers was an officer in the United States Navy and an early aviator.-Biography:Rodgers was the great-grandson of Commodores Rodgers and Perry. He was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1903...
  
  
• Calbraith Perry Rodgers
  Calbraith Perry Rodgers
  Calbraith Perry Rodgers was an American pioneer aviator. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops, both intentional and accidental...
  
  

Smallwood family

• Governor William Smallwood
  William Smallwood
  William Smallwood was an American planter, soldier and politician from Charles County, Maryland. He served in the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of major general...
  
  

Sparrow family

• Thomas Sparrow (Planter, Sparrows Point, Rhode River)

Steuart family

Steuart family

The Steuart family of Maryland was a prominent political family in the early History of Maryland. Of Scottish descent, the Steuarts have their origins in Perthshire, Scotland...

• George H. Steuart (planter)
• George Steuart Hume
  George Steuart Hume
  Dr George Steuart Hume was a Maryland physician and landowner who emigrated to Scotland before the American Revolutionary War. Born George Hume Steuart in Maryland, he left for Scotland in 1758, where he studied Medicine, changing his name to his maternal name of Hume in order to inherit his...
  
  
• George H. Steuart (Major General)
• Richard Sprigg Steuart
  Richard Sprigg Steuart
  Dr. Richard Sprigg Steuart was a Maryland physician and an early pioneer of the treatment of mental illness. He was instrumental in the expansion and modernisation of The Maryland Hospital for the Insane, now known as the Spring Grove Hospital Center, which became his life's work...
  
  
• George H. Steuart (Brigadier General)
• William Steuart (Mayor of Baltimore)
  William Steuart (Mayor of Baltimore)
  Lieutenant Colonel William Steuart was a wealthy planter in colonial Maryland, and Mayor of Baltimore from 1831 to 1832. He inherited the estate of Dodon in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, from his father, planter and politician George H. Steuart...
  
  

Stone family

• William Stone
• Thomas Stone
  Thomas Stone
  Thomas Stone was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777...
  
  
• Michael J. Stone
  Michael J. Stone
  Michael Jenifer Stone was an American planter and statesman from Charles County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the U.S. House.Michael was born to David and Elizabeth Stone at Poynton Manor in Charles County...
  
  
• John Hoskins Stone
  John Hoskins Stone
  John Hoskins Stone was an American planter, soldier, and politician from Charles County, Maryland. During the Revolutionary War he led the 1st Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army...
  
  
• William Murray Stone
  William Murray Stone
  William Murray Stone, D.D. was an American Episcopal clergyman from Maryland. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland at Baltimore from 1830....
  
  
• Frederick Stone
  Frederick Stone
  Frederick Stone was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving two terms from 1867—1871....
  
  

Tasker family

• Benjamin Tasker, Sr.
• Benjamin Tasker, Jr.
  Benjamin Tasker, Jr.
  Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Jr. was the son of Ann Bladen and Benjamin Tasker, Sr., the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753....
  
  
• Selima (horse)
  Selima (horse)
  Selima was one of the most important Thoroughbred horses of the 18th century and became one of the foundation mares of the American Thoroughbred...
  
  

See also

• First Families of Virginia
  First Families of Virginia
  First Families of Virginia were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers. They originated with colonists from England who primarily settled at Jamestown, Williamsburg, and along the James River and other navigable waters...
  
  
• Hammond-Harwood House
  Hammond-Harwood House
  The Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, is one of the premier colonial houses remaining in America from the British colonial period . It is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio’s I Quattro...
  
  
• Whitehall (Annapolis, Maryland)
• Tulip Hill
  Tulip Hill
  Tulip Hill is a plantation house that was built between 1755 and 1756 one mile from Galesville in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland. Tulip Hill was built before the American War of Independence....
  
  
• Pimlico Race Course
  Pimlico Race Course
  Pimlico Race Course is a horse racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland, most famous for hosting the Preakness Stakes. Its name is derived from the 1660s when English settlers named the area where the facility currently stands in honor of Olde Ben Pimlico's Tavern in London...
  
  
• Preakness Stakes
  Preakness Stakes
  The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...