Issued on March 4, 1681, the boundaries of Pennsylvania were:

Perhaps Charles II was glad to have a place to send political outsiders like Penn that was far away from England. Charles renamed it Pennsylvania in honor of Penn's father. Charles II of England owed Penn's father a large loan which at the elder Penn's death the king settled by granting Penn a large area of land 'Sylvania' ( Latin for woods) west and south of New Jersey. While colonists settled there, Penn remained in England. William Penn, a leading member of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, was one of those who was granted the colonial province of West New Jersey in 1677. Mary's City, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. On May 27th, 1634, Leonard Calvert with about 300 settlers arrived at St. His sons went on to found the Maryland colony. The king gave Calvert and his son everything north of the Potomac River to the 40th parallel and everything from the Atlantic Ocean to the source of the Potomac. He then convinced Charles I of England, James's successor, to give him a land grant to start the colony of Maryland. A wealthy man, Calvert started his own 'Avalon' colony in Newfoundland. Now retired and with time on his hands, Calvert turned his attention to overseas plantations. Calvert was one of the investors in the Virginia Company but was not allowed to go to the Virginia Colony because of his religion. The king made him an Irish baronet with the title of 'Lord Baltimore'. When he decided to publicly announce he was a Catholic in 1625, English law required him to resign his position. One of the original markers, this one in Adams County, PennsylvaniaĮngland's Secretary of State under James I of England was George Calvert.

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