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public school system, 21I. great fire of 1904, 215-217.
Baltimore City College, 2II.
Baltimore clipper ships, 146.
Baltimore, the cruiser, 197.
Baltimore, Lord, see Calvert and Proprie- tary.
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, company formed, 158. ground broken, etc., 159.
completed to the Ohio river, 160.
partly destroyed during Civil War, 177. strike on, 190.
development of, 208.
controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad, 208.
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 21I-212. Bank of Maryland fails, 160.
Barney, Joshua, appointed to command of the Hyder Ally, 129. defeats the General Monk, 129.
in War of 1812, 148.
Battle Monument, 156.
Beatty, William, killed at the battle of Hob- kirk's Hill, 127.
Benham, Rear Admiral, 199.
Bennett, Richard, 43.
Bernard, Alfred Duncan, 197.
Bill of Rights, 94.
Bladensburg, battle of, 148.
Blakistone's Island, 14.
Boundaries, charter, 8.
altered by William Penn, 55.
altered by surrender of territory to Penn, Calvert, George, 3. 76.
dispute over, leads to border warfare, 77. Mason and Dixon's Line, 78. eastern, 78. southern and western, 78.
Braddock, General, 80.
Branch, Rev. Henry, 197.
Brandywine, battle of the, 120.
Brent, Giles, temporary governor, 35. Browning, Louisa, 86.
Bunker Hill, 90. Burgoyne, General, 120.
Butler, B. F., 173. Butler, John, 30.
Cabot, 2.
Calvert, Benedict Leonard, governor, 72.
Calvert, Benedict Leonard, proprietary, 63.
Calvert, Cecilius, becomes Lord Baltimore, 6. receives charter for Maryland, 6. character and plans, 12, 53.
yields to people right to propose legisla- tion, 2I.
attitude during Civil War in England, 34. policy of religious toleration, 13, 39-40.
province restored to, after Puritan Revo- lution, 45.
suppresses Fendall's Rebellion, 52. death, 53.
Calvert, Charles, governor of Maryland, 72.
Calvert, Charles, third Lord Baltimore, ap- pointed governor, 52.
becomes second proprietary, 53.
character, 53.
surrounded by difficulties, 56-59.
voted gift of 100,000 pounds of tobacco by the Assembly, 58.
becomes a mere landlord, 60. death, 63.
Calvert, Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, 63. government of, 72. death, 78.
Calvert, Frederick, becomes sixth Lord Bal- timore, 78.
character, 79. death, 86.
made Baron of Baltimore, 4.
plan for founding a colony, 5. visits Virginia, 5.
death, 6. character, 6.
Calvert, Leonard, first governor of Mary- land, 13.
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Calvert, Leonard, continued.
captures Kent Island, 30. goes to England, 35. returns to Maryland, 36. flees to Virginia, 36. recaptures St. Mary's, 36. death, 37. character, 37. monument to, 194.
Calvert, Philip, secretary of province, 51. governor, 52.
Camden, battle of, 123.
Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio, 157. Chesapeake and Delaware, 208. Capital, see Annapolis and St. Mary's.
Carmichael, Judge, 175.
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 87. at burning of the Peggy Stewart, 89. signs Declaration of Independence, 92.
breaks ground for Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 159. Caswell, General, 124. Catholics, see Religion. Caulk's Field, battle of, 148.
· Census, state, footnote, 202. Charles I, becomes king of England, 4. tyranny of, 33. at war with Parliament, 33. beheaded, 33.
Charles II, becomes king, 34. supports proprietary in Fendali's Rebel- lion, 52.
Charleston, captured by the British, 123. Charter of Maryland, 6, 8.
Chase, Samuel, 92.
City Hall, Baltimore, 186.
Civil War in England, 32-33.
Civil War in the United States, proper atti- tude toward, 166. causes and beginning, 168. position of Maryland in, 170. progress and termination of, 171-172. first bloodshed of, 172.
conditions in Maryland during, 173-175. Maryland troops in, 175-178.
invasions of Maryland during, 177-178.
Claiborne, William, character and plans, in- Copper mines in Maryland, 102. fluence on Maryland, 27-28. defies the authority of Maryland, 29.
Claiborne, William, continued. sends out the Cockatrice, 29. loses Kent Island, 31.
in alliance with Richard Ingle, 35-36. on commission to take charge of Vir- ginia, 43. overturns Maryland government, 43.
Clinton, General, 123.
Cloberry and Company, 30.
Cochrane, Admiral, 147.
Cockburn, Admiral, commits depredations in the Chesapeake, 147.
Collectors of duties, king's, 58-59.
College of electors, 95.
Colleges and universities of Maryland, 212- 213.
Colonial architecture, see Homes.
Colonial governments, three kinds, 6, 8.
Columbus, Christopher, I.
Committees of Observation, 89. Comptroller of the treasury, 185.
Conditions of Plantation, 21.
Confederate States of America, 170.
· Congress, of the colonies, 90.
Constitution of Maryland, the charter, 6, 8. in 1658, 49. first state (1776), 94-95. amendments to, 162-163. of 1851, 163.
of 1864, 183. of 1867, 184-186.
Constitution of the U. S., adopted, 139.
declared supreme law in Maryland, 184. fifteenth amendment to, 186.
Convention, the, in Revolution, 89. declares independence of Maryland, 92. Convention, commercial, at Annapolis (1786), 139. constitutional (1787), 139.
in Maryland adopts Federal Constitution, 139-140. Convicts, transported to colonies, 66. Coode, John, 59.
Cooper, Peter, 159. Copley, Sir Lionel, 60. death, 61.
Corn grown in early Maryland, 23, 65. pounded in mortars, 23, 65.
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Corn, continued.
in Revolutionary times, 100. at the present time, 203. Cornwallis, Lord, at Long Island, 115. at Trenton, 118. in command in the South, 123. at Camden, 124. campaign against Greene, 125. surrenders to Washington, 125.
Cornwallis, Thomas, in battle of the Poco- moke, 29. releases Ingle, 35. Council of Safety, 89.
Council, governor's in the province, 49. under the state, 95. abolished, 162. Courthouse, Baltimore, 187.
Cowpens, battle at, 125-126. Maryland troops in, 125-126.
Crabs, 205. Cresap, Michael, 130.
Cresap, Thomas, 77. " Critical Period " of American history, the, I38.
Cromwell, Oliver, 33-34.
Cromwell, Richard, 34. Cumberland, fort, 81.
Cumberland city, on site of Fort Cumber- land, 81.
terminal of Chesapeake and Ohio canal, Eutaw Springs, battle of, 125, 128. 157. Maryland troops at, 128. manufacturing industries, 205.
commercial center of western Maryland, 208.
Dancing, 108. Davis, Jefferson, 170.
Declaration of Independence, of the English colonies, 90, 92. signers for Maryland, 92. the Maryland, 92. Declaration of Rights, 184.
Delegates in legislature, in the province, 32. in the state, 95, 184.
Dishes, table, in colonial times, 103. Dixie, the, 200.
Dove, see Ark and Dove.
Dress in colonial times, 105-107.
Dulany, Daniel, 86.
Dunmore, Lord, 122.
Duquesne, Fort, 80.
Dutch, occupying Maryland territory, 53. Dyer, Captain, 198.
Early, General, invades Maryland, 178. Eden, Robert, governor of Maryland, 86. legislates by proclamation, 86. leaves Maryland, 90.
Education, in colonial Maryland, 108. public lands granted for, footnote, 137. interest in, following the Revolution, 143.
in South aided by George Peabody, 179. in the state, 210-213. Election law, in Maryland, 202-203.
Ellicott City, first terminus of the B. & O. R. R., 160. partly destroyed by a flood, 186.
Elliott, Jesse Duncan, 146.
English colonies, 2, 3.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, 192, 215.
Episcopal church, established in Maryland, 61.
Episcopal clergymen, 61, 102.
Evelin, George, agent of Cloberry and Com- pany, 30. made commander of Kent island under Maryland, 30.
Federal Republican, the, 146.
Fendall, Josias, appointed governor, 5I. rebels against the proprietary, 51. Financial distresses, 160-161. First colonists to Maryland, 13.
Fleet, Henry, guides first colonists, 17. conducts trading expeditions, 28. Floods, 186.
Dewey, Admiral, wins battle of Manila bay, Food, abundance in colonial times, 19, 65, 197. 104. president of Schley Court of Inquiry, 199. Ford, John D., 198.
gives dissenting opinion in Schley case, Fort McHenry, location, 149. 200.
repulses the British fleet, 152-153.
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.Fort Mifflin, 121. Fort Washington, 118, 119. Fox hunting, 107.
France, fights with England for control of Governor of Maryland, appointed by pro- North America, 79-82.
aids American colonies in Revolution, 120. Frederick city, founded, 76. captured during Civil War, 178. manufacturing industries, 205-206. as a commercial center, 208.
Frederick, Fort, 81. French and Indian War, 79-82. Frizell, Susan, 67. Front Royal, battle at, 176.
Fuller, William, 44. commands' Puritans in battle of the Severn, 44. in Assembly of 1660, 51.
Gambling, 107. Game, in the province, 19, 65. Gates, General, 123.
General Assembly, see Assembly.
General Monk, the, 129.
Geographical Society of Baltimore, 214. George III, king of England, 83, 90.
Government of Maryland, continued. under Constitution of 1864, 183. under Constitution of 1867, 184-186.
prietary, 8. may approve laws temporarily, 31. presides over Assembly, 32. duties and powers, 49. is made head of state government, 94, 95. election of given to the people, term made 4 years, 163.
powers and duties under Constitution of 1867, 185.
Grant, General, 172, 178.
Great Seal of Maryland, stolen, 36.
description of, 38-39. Greene, Nathanael, receives command in the South, 124. campaigns in the South, 124-125.
order to Williams at Eutaw Springs, 128. praises Maryland troops, 128. Griffith, William Ridgely, 197. Guilford Courthouse, battle at, 125, 127. Maryland troops at, 127.
monument on battle field to Maryland Line, 194.
Germans, immigrate to Maryland in eigh- Gunby, John, at the battle of Guilford Court- teenth century, 74, 76. house, 127. at the battle of Hobkirk's Hill, 127. Germantown, battle of, 120. Maryland troops in, 121. Gerrard, 40. Gettysburg, battle of, 178.
Gibson William, 159.
Gilman, Daniel C., president of Johns Hop- kins University, 188.
president of the Geographical Society of Baltimore, 214. Gist, Mordecai, at battle of Long Island, 115. suppresses Tory insurrection, 122. Government of Maryland, first, 6-9. early changes in, 21. reorganized, 37. changes to royal province, 60. restored to Calverts, 63. changes wrought by royal government, 71. under Convention and Council of Safety, 89-90. formation of state, 92-95. reforms to 1851, 162-163.
Habeas Corpus, writ of, explained, 173-174. suspended during Civil War, 174. opinion on, by Chief Justice Taney, 174. resolution of Maryland Assembly on, 174. Hager, Jonathan, 76.
Hagerstown, founded, 76. captured during Civil War, 178. manufactures of, 205. as a commercial center, 208.
Hanson, John, footnote, 137.
Harford, Henry, 86.
Hart, becomes governor, 72.
Havre de Grace, burned by British, 147.
Heating of houses in colonial times, 104.
Henrietta Maria, Maryland named in honor of, 5. Herbert, James R., in battle of Gettysburg, 178. monument to, 194.
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Herrman, Augustin, footnote, 53. Hobkirk's Hill, battle of, 125.
Maryland troops at, 127-128.
Hoes of colonial times, 100.
Homes, in early Maryland, 22, 65. in colonial times, 102-105.
Hood, stamp distributor, 84. Hopkins, Johns, 188.
Horse racing, 107.
Hospitality in Maryland, 68, 104.
Howard, John Eager, at the battle of Cow- pens, 126.
assigned to troops to cover Greene's re- treat, 127.
at the battle of Guilford Courthouse, 127.
at the battle of Eutaw Springs, 128.
tribute to by Greene, 128.
governor of Maryland, 142.
equestrian statue of, 197.
Howard, John Eager (grandson of fore- going) in Mexican War, 164.
Howe, General, 115, 120.
Hundred, division of county, 22. St. George's, 23. Hyder Ally, the, 129.
Indented servants, 66.
Indians, of Maryland, 16.
Leonard Calvert's dealings with, 16-17.
Land purchased from, 17.
Nanticoke and Susquehannocks commit outrages, 32. threatening, 51. methods of warfare, 80.
Industries of Maryland, in the province, 21- 24, 63-66, 99-102.
in the state, 203-206.
see Agriculture, Aquarian products, Min- ing, etc. Ingle, Richard, invades Maryland, 36. Iron mines of Maryland, 102.
Jacob Tome Institute, 213. James, Duke of York, seizes Maryland terri- tory, 55. makes a grant to William Penn, 55. becomes king of England, 55.
James, Duke of York, continued.
helps Penn to seize Maryland territory, 55-56.
becomes a tyrant and is driven from the throne, 56. James I, king of England, 3. opinion about the rights of kings, 32.
Jamestown, settlement of, 3. Jews, enfranchised, 163 .-
Johnson, Bradley T., in command of the Maryland Line in the Southern army, 176. in battle at Front Royal, 176.
Johnson, Thomas, first state governor of Maryland, 95.
nominates Washington for commander-in- chief, 113. Johns Hopkins Hospital, 188. Johns Hopkins University, 188. receives state aid, 212-213.
Joppa, 72.
Judiciary of Maryland, in the province, 49, 51. in the state (1776), 95. under Constitution of 1867, 185.
July the Third, the battle of, 198.
Kalb, Baron de, 123-124.
Kenly, John R., in command of Maryland troops in Northern army, 175. in battle at Front Royal, 176.
Kent Island, Claiborne establishes a trading post on, 28. captured by Leonard Calvert, 30.
awarded to Maryland by Board of Com- missioners for the Plantations, 31.
Key, Francis Scott, composes "Star-span- gled Banner," 153. monument erected to, 195. King William's School, 62. merged in St. John's College, 144.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 125, 130. Landing of first colonists in Maryland, 14, 17. Laws, how made in colony, 31. revised code passed by Assembly of 1715, 71. of England against American commerce and manufactures, 83.
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Lawyers, of colonial Maryland, 102. Learned Societies, 214. Lee, Charies, 118. at the battle of Monmouth, 12I. Lee, Robert E., 172. invades Maryland, 177. defeated at South Mountain, 177. in battle of Antietam, 177. defeated at Gettysburg, 178. surrenders, 178.
Lee, Thomas Sim, 142. Lemly, Samuel C., 199. Lewger, John, 2I. Lewis, tried and fined, 40. Lexington, battle of, 90.
Liberia, 167-168.
Libraries, public, 214-215.
Lighting of houses in colonial times, 104. Lincoln, Abraham, elected president, 169. Lincoln, General, 123.
Literature in colonial Maryland, 109.
London Company, 3. Long Island, battle of, 115-116.
McClellan, General, 177. Maine, the, destruction of, 197. Manila bay, battle of, 197.
Manners and customs, in the early days of the colony, 21-24.
in the eighteenth century, 63-68.
Maryland life in colonial times, 99-III. in U. S. after the Revolution, 138. Manufacturing industries, 205-206.
Maryland, named for Queen Henrietta Maria, 5.
character of country at the time of the first landing, 15. prosperous beginning of, 19. becomes a royal province, 60. restored to the Calverts, 63. becomes an independent state, 92. compared with Virginia, 99. in the Revolution, 130, 132. part in establishing the Federal Union, I35-140. cedes land for Federal capital, 144. in War of 1812, 147-153.
attitude at opening of Civil War, 170- I71.
Maryland, continued.
conditions in during the Civil War, 173- 175 aids South after Civil War, 179. present government of, 184-186. politics and elections in, 201-203. industries of, 203-206.
commerce and transportation in, 207-208. education in, 210-213. public school system of, 210-212.
Maryland Academy of Sciences, 214.
Maryland Agricultural College, 213.
Maryland Colonization Society, 167.
Maryland flag, 45.
Maryland Gazette, the, 109.
prints controversy between Carroll and Dulany, 86-87.
Maryland Historical Society, 214. art gallery of, 215.
Maryland Institute, 213.
Maryland soldiers, at Long Island, 115-116. in Northern campaigns of the Revolution, 118-119, 121-122.
at Camden, 124.
in the Southern campaigns of the Revolu- tion, 125-128.
services in the Revolution, 130, 132.
in the Mexican War, 164.
in the Civil War, 175-178. in the Spanish-American War, 200.
Mason and Dixon's Line, 78.
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land, 214. Merryman, John, 173. Mexican War, the, 163-164. Maryland soldiers in, 164. monument to, footnote, 163. Mining industries, in the province, 102. in the state, 203-204. Monmouth, battle of, I2I. Maryland troops in, 121-122.
Monument, to George Washington, 155. Battle Monument, 156.
to Colonel Armistead, 194.
to Leonard Calvert, 194.
to General Herbert, 194.
at Guilford Courthouse, 194.
to Maryland's 400 at Long Island, 195. to General Smallwood, 195.
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Monument, continued.
to F. S. Key, 195.
to Marylanders who aided the cause of
freedom during the Revolution, 195, 197. Morgan, General, at the battle of Cowpens, 126. Morse, Samuel F. B., 162.
Neale, Councilor, releases Ingle, 35. Nepotism in the province, 57.
New Amstel, 53.
Nicholson, Commodore, 129.
Nicholson, Francis, becomes governor, 62. founds King William's School, 62. efforts for education, 62, 210.
Ninety-six, siege of, assault by troops of Maryland and Virginia at, 128.
Non-Importation Association, 85, 87.
North, the, life and customs differ from those of the South, 99.
slavery abolished in, 167.
controversy with South over slavery, 168. defeats the armies of the South, 172.
North America, struggle for between Eng- lish and French, 79-82.
North Point, battle of, 150-152.
Northwest Territory, 136.
conflicting claims of states, 136. map of land claims in 1783, 136.
map of in 1787, 140. interest in preserves the Union, 136.
stand taken by Maryland makes a national domain and founds Federal Union, 137. lands from set aside for education, foot- note, 137.
Occupations in colonial times, 99-102.
Ogle, Samuel, 72. Ohio Company, 80. " Old Congress Hall," 119.
Old Treasury Building, footnote, 62. Oregon, the, 200. Oysters, 65, 204.
Paca William, 92. governor of Maryland, 142. Palatinate, Maryland a, 8.
meaning, 8, 9. Durham model for Maryland, 9. Palmer's Island, occupied by traders, 28.
Parker, Sir Peter, 148.
Peabody, George, supports Maryland credit, 16I.
contributes to the cause of education in the South, 179.
endows the Peabody Institute, 182.
contributes to the Maryland Historical Society, 214.
not a native of Maryland, 183.
Peabody Institute, dedicated, 182.
library of, 215. art gallery of, 215.
Peggy Stewart, burning of the, 87, 89.
Penn, William, is granted Pennsylvania, 54- 55. gains territory from Maryland, 55.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 208.
People of Maryland, character of, 67-68, III.
Peter Cooper's Locomotive, 159.
Philadelphia, " finest city in Maryland," 77. captured by the British, 1204 evacuated by the British, 12I.
Plows, of colonial times, 100.
Pocomoke, battle of the, 29.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 189-190.
Political parties, 201.
Politics and elections in Maryland, 201-203. Poll tax in Maryland, 61.
Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, 21I-212.
Popular Privileges and Rights, charter grants to Marylanders the rights of Eng- lishmen, 8.
exemption of the colony from royal taxa- tion, 8.
struggle for the privilege of proposing leg- islation, 19-21.
Assembly contends for, 58, 72.
demand for the rights and privileges of Englishmen, 72, 84.
contention for during French and Indian War, 82.
asserted at time of Revolution, 85, 87, 89, 92.
Maryland becomes a state, 92, 94. state government formed, 94-95. democratic changes, 162-163. stated in Maryland Declaration of Rights, 184.
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Population of Maryland at the time of the Revolution, 99. Pory, John, conducts trading expeditions, 28. Postoffice, Baltimore, 186. Potomac Company, formed, 143. merged in C. & O. Canal Co., 143. Pratt, Enoch, 192.
Privateers, American, in the Revolution, 129. in the War of 1812, 146. Professional schools, 213.
Property qualifications, for voters and office holders, 95. abolished, 163.
Proprietary, rights and powers of, 8, 49. becomes a mere landlord, 60. is restored to Maryland government, 63. Protestants, see Religion.
Protestant Association, 59. Protestant Revolution (1689), 59-60. Providence, settlement of, 41. Provincial Court, 51. Public Improvements, plans of Potomac Co., 142-143.
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 157.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 157-160. aided by the state, 161. first telegraph line, 162. Public Schools, see Education.
Pulaski, Count, 130. Puritans, settle in Maryland, 40. granted freedom of worship, 4I. rebel against Lord Baltimore, 42-45. surrender province to proprietary, 45. control assembly of 1660, 51.
Quakers, 51, 58.
Ramsay, Rear Admiral, 199. Ramsey, Nathaniel, 121-122. Rawdon, Lord, at Camden, 124. Rayner, Isidor, 199, 200.
Redemptioners, see Indented Servants.
Reed, Philip, in command at Caulk's Field, 148. monument, 148.
Religion, meaning of religious intolerance, 4. of first Maryland colonists, 13. Protestants and Catholics in Maryland, 37. Toleration Act, 39-40.
Religion, continued.
Puritan intolerance, 42-45. difficulty with Quakers, 51. feeling against Catholics, 57. Episcopal church established by law, 61. severe laws against Catholics, 61.
Religious Toleration in Maryland, 13. Toleration Act, 39-40. Protestants protected, 40. Puritans granted freedom of worship, 4I. Remsen, Ira, 188. Republican party, 201. " Repudiation Day," footnote, 85. Resources of Western Maryland, 142. Revolutionary War, causes of, 83-85. task of the Americans in, II4. naval operations in, 128-129. close of, 129-130. Maryland in the, 113-132.
Ridgley, Randolph, 164. Ringgold, Samuel, 164.
" Rolling roads," 64-65. Roosevelt, President, 200.
Ross, General, arrives in the Chesapeake, 148. captures Washington, 149. killed, 150, 152.
Rousby, Christopher, killed, 58.
Rumsey, James, footnote, 140.
St. Clement's Island, 14. St. John's College, founded, 143. receives state aid, 212.
St. Mary's, first capital of Maryland, 17. location and settlement, 17. ceases to be capital, 62. character of town, 64.
Sampson, Rear Admiral, 198.
Schley, Thomas, 74.
Schley, Winfield Scott, second in command in Cuban waters, 198.
in battle of July the Third, 198.
Court of Inquiry, 199.
appeals to the president, 200. received popular sympathy, 200.
Schools, see Education. Scotch-Irish immigrants, 76. Scott, Irving M., 201. Secession, meaning of, 169. threats of after the Revolution, 169.
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Secession, continued.
threats of from New England states, 145. differences of opinion about, 169. . Southern states secede, 170. Secretary of the province, 49. Secretary of state, 185.
Senate, see Senators.
Senators, chosen by electoral college, 95. elected by the people, 163.
under Constitution of 1867, 184.
Servants, see Slaves and Indented Servants.
Severn, battle of the, 44-45.
Shad, 205.
Sharpe, Horatio, governor of Maryland, 81. efforts in the French and Indian War, 81. contends with Assembly, 82, 85. succeeded by Robert Eden, 86.
Sixth Massachusetts regiment mobbed in Baltimore, 172.
Slaves, negroes as, 66, 104-105.
retained in South, freed in North, 166-167.
proportion of to free negroes in Maryland, 167.
efforts in South for gradual emancipation, 167.
plan of colonizing, 167.
controversy over between North and South, 168.
Smallwood, William, absent from battle of Long Island, 115.
suppresses Tory insurrection, 122.
governor of Maryland, 142.
monument to, 195.
Smith, Samuel, defense of Fort Mifflin, 12I. in command at Baltimore (1814), 150. suppresses riots in Baltimore, 161.
Smith, Thomas, arrested in the Patuxent river for trading without a license, 29.
commands vessel of Claiborne in a fight with Marylanders, 29.
stirs up trouble in Kent Island, 30. condemned to death, 31.
Society, in colonial Maryland, 21-24, 63-68, 99-III.
Sons of the American Revolution, Maryland Society of, mark site of "Old Congress Hall," 119.
erect monument to Maryland's 400 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 195.
Sons of the American Revolution, continued. erect monument to General Smallwood, 195.
erect Maryland Revolutionary Monument, 195-196.
Sons of Liberty, 85.
South, the life and customs different from those of the North, 99.
slavery in, 167.
controversy with North over slavery, 168. states of secede, 170.
aided by Maryland after Civil War, 179.
Southern Relief Association, 179.
South Mountain, battle of, 177.
Spaniards in the New World, 2.
Spanish-American War, the, 197-201.
Stamp Act, the, 84.
Star-spangled Banner, the, 153.
State Library, 214.
State of Society, see Manners and Customs and Society.
Steamboat, the, of James Rumsey, footnote, 140.
Steiner, Bernard C., 192.
Steiner, Lewis H., 192.
Stevens, General, 124.
Stewart, Anthony, 87-88.
Stirling, General, in battle of Long Island, II6.
Stone, Thomas, 92.
Stone, William, appointed governor, 37. invites Puritans to Maryland, 40.
in the Puritan Revolution, 43-45.
Stricker, General, in command of Baltimore militia, 150.
Suffrage, in Maryland, property qualification for, 95.
qualification abolished, 163.
granted to Jews, 163.
oaths prescribed for voters, 183. under Constitution of 1867, 186, 202.
Swedes, in Maryland, 53.
Talbot, George, kills Christopher Rousby, 58. rescued from prison, 59.
pardoned by king, 59.
Taney, Chief Justice, 173.
Tarleton, Colonel, at Camden, 124. at the battle of Cowpens, 126.
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Taxation, English principle of, 83.
Maryland exempted from taxation by Eng- lish government, 8, 83.
Tea, taxed, 85, 87. Telegraph, first, 162.
Terrapin, the diamond-back, 205.
Theater, first in America claimed by An- Wallace, Lew, defeated on the Monocacy, napolis, 108.
Thomas, Philip E., first president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 159.
Tobacco, the staple in Maryland, 23. used as money, 23, 51, 53, 65-66, 99.
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