| Colonial America | Year | Colonial Maryland and London Town | |||
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| Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, was established in the Chesapeake Bay region. | 1607 | ||||
| The Plymouth Colony is established in Massachusettes. | 1620 | ||||
| 1632 | Maryland Charter is granted to Cecilius Calvert by King Charles I. The colony was named for Queen Henrietta Maria. | ||||
| 1634 | Mathias de Sousa, an indentured servant of African descent, arrives in Maryland. After earning his freedom, in 1642, De Sousa votes as a freeman in the Maryland Proprietary Assembly. | ||||
| 1663/64 | Maryland legalizes slavery and passes laws regarding marriages between the enslaved and free-born persons. | ||||
| 1683 | London Town created by the General Assembly of Maryland through the Act for the Advancement of Trade. | ||||
| 1684 | Mehitable Larkin marries Otho Holland. | ||||
| The Salem witch trials, conducted in the Massachusetts Colony, result in the executions of 20 people. | 1692 | ||||
| 1694 | Annapolis becomes the capital of Maryland. | ||||
| 1696 | Mehitable Holland (Young Mehitable) is born. | ||||
| 1697 | Thomas Holland is born. | ||||
| 1700 | James Holland is born. | ||||
| Queen Anne's War breaks out between France and Great Britain over unresolved issues from their last war and concerns about power in Spain. Colonists in New England suffer greatly for the first several years of the war until Britain comes to their aid. | 1702-1713 | 1703 | Otho Holland dies. Mehitable Holland marries John Pierpoint. | ||
| 1704 | Larkin Pierpoint is born. | ||||
| 1704 | Port of Baltimore opens at Whetstone Point (known today as Locust Point) and is declared a Point of Entry for the tobacco trade by Maryland legislators. | ||||
| 1720 | Dr. Richard Hill marries Deborah Moore. | ||||
| 1724 | Hannah Hill is born. | ||||
| 1727 | William Parks begins publishing the Maryland Gazette newspaper. | ||||
| 1729 | Baltimore Town is founded. After merging with surrounding areas and annexing additional land, the city becomes known as Baltimore. | ||||
| 1739 | Hannah Hill marries Samuel Moore. Deborah and Richard Hill leave five of their children in the care of their daughter, Hannah Hill Moore. | ||||
| 1744 | Treaty of Lancaster is signed. Chiefs of Six Nations (Iroquois) cede lands in Maryland and Virginia to colonial governments, furthering settlement by European colonists. | ||||
| 1747 | London Town is not selected as a tobacco inspection site by the General Assembly of Maryland. | ||||
| 1748 | William Brown, Jr. is born. | ||||
| Parliament passed the Iron Act, which prohibits colonists from manufacturing iron themselves and forces them to ship raw iron to England for production. | 1750 | ||||
| 1751 | Deborah Moore Hill, mother of Hannah Hill Moore, dies in Madeira. | ||||
| 1753 | William Brown, Sr. acquires the London Town Ferry. | ||||
| Seven Years' War
(French and Indian War) (1755) England declares war on France over territory in North America and issues in Europe. |
1754-1763 | 1754 | Mehitable Pierpoint dies in Frederick County, Maryland. | ||
| 1755 | Birth of the enslaved child, Jacob. Richard Hill, Jr. dies in Madeira, where he had moved to joined the family business. |
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| 1759/60 | A total of 598 enslaved persons are auctioned at London Town. | ||||
| 1760 | Construction of the William Brown house begins. Brown family acquires the enslaved woman, Sall. | ||||
| 1762 | William Brown, Jr. leaves for Scotland. William Brown, Sr. sues Mary Jones, a convict servant, for time lost to work due to two pregnancies. Richard Hill, Sr. dies in America. |
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| 1763 | Advertisement is published in the Maryland Gazette by the Brown family about their runaway indentured servant, William Gray. | ||||
| Parliament passes the Sugar Act. | 1764 | ||||
| Parliament passes the Stamp Act. As a result, riots broke out a few months later in Boston. | 1765 | ||||
| The Stamp Act is repealed. | 1766 | ||||
| Townshend Acts impose new tariffs on British goods. | 1767 | Mason-Dixon Line is established as Maryland's northern border. | |||
| British troops in Boston. | 1768 | ||||
| 1769 | Maryland merchants stop importing British goods (Non-importation Agreement). | ||||
| Boston Massacre occurs on March 5th. Parliament repeals all of the Townshend tariffs, except for the one on tea. | 1770 | ||||
| Parliament passes the Tea Act. Boston Tea Party takes place on December 16th. | 1773 | ||||
| Parliament closes the port of Boston and suspends the Massachusetts government. | 1774 | A mob burns the cargo vessel, Peggy Stewart, in Annapolis harbor on October 19th. Maryland sends delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. |
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| American Revolutionary War | 1775-1783 | ||||
| 1776 | Four Marylanders, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll, sign the Declaration of Independence. | ||||
| 1783 | Maryland bans the importation of slaves. Massachusetts outlaws slavery. | ||||
| 1785 | William Brown, Sr. loses his house to foreclosure. | ||||
| George Washington is unanimously elected the first president of the United States. | 1789 | ||||
| 1799 | Hannah Hill Moore dies. | ||||
