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In Pld Senate Chamber Treaty With Great Britain Was Signed At £l?se <7f revolutionary War.
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'history, the story of Annapolis presents a vivid picture of typical early colonial life in Maryland,'one of the most important
l of the original thirteen colonies.
"\A study of the history of this famous old city reveals clearly many of the social, political and economic factors which led the thirteen colonies to unite in revolt against Great Britain.
The city is located on the Sev-
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Annapolis was settled in 1649 by a small group of Puritans who had gone from New England to Virginia. Not finding a welcome in Virginia, they petitioned Lord Baltimore for an asyhrm in Maryland. This was granted by Lord Baltimore, provided the settlers would hold land and take the oath of allegiance to the Lord Proprietary.
The original plot of land granted to the settlers was 250 acres on the north shore of the Severn River, and later on, lots were located on the present site of the city.
The settlers were, with few exceptions, the sturdy sons of English yeomanry. One historian says of them: "Descended from this hardy stock of sturdiest English, indoctrined in the tenets of their austere faith, inheritors of trials and persecutions, their subsequent rebellious yet courageous conduct in Maryland was the natural sequence of their blood, religion and education."
Having established themselves on the shores of the Severn, the new settlers began at once to display their spirit of independence by obstinately refusing for a year to comply with the terms of their agreement with Lord Baltimore. They were criticized severely as a "restless set with itching ears,"
as when they were in open oppo sition to the powers that were.
In order to get them to come into the domain of Lord Baltimore, the General Assembly of 1650, meeting at St. Mary's City, was forced to modify their oaths ">f allegiance to the Lord Proprietary, carefully leaving out the mrases "absolute lord" and 'royal jurisdiction," and making it plain that the terms of their oath were in no way understood to infringe or prejudice liberty of conscience in point of religion. These modified terms were accepted by the new settlers.
It is interesting to note that here was, perhaps, the first step away from the monarchical system of government as followed by the Lords Proprietary of Maryland, and the seeds of independence has been sown in the Province.
The General Assembly immedi-
satisfied if the Annapolis patriots ha^d his Here lived the then richest man thigh broken by an iron belaying in America, Charles Carroll of
pin in the hands of one of the vcs sel's crews."
Hood afterward made a clan destine landing, but the citizen? burned his house, and so terrified him that he fled to New York for
safety. When he resigned hh Court of Chancery, and the Court office as Stamp Collector, he wi • of Appeals.
allowed to return to Annapolis I The best lawyers of America and pursue his business. S congregated in Annapolis, to
The boldest act of resistance to! which fact the fame of the town British authority was made in I is in great measure due.
Carrollton, with his two million pounds.
Here the General Assembly met; here the sessions of the County Court were held; here sat the Provincial Court, the ; high
Annapolis in February, 1770, four years before the "Boston Tea Party" took place. The cargo of the brig Good Intent, being about half interdicted articles, was prohibited from landing, and the ship sent back to England.
When news of the blockade of the harbor of Boston reached Annapolis on Wednesday, the 25th of May, 1774, the people met and passed an unanimous resolution stopping all exports to Great
ately created the county of Anne Britain, until the act of Parlia-Arundel, so called from the maid- i ment blockading Boston should name of Lady Baltimore, j be repealed.
While the Province of Maryland was in a state of patriotic indignation over the oppressive acts of the British Government, the brig Peggy §ftuart arrived at Annapolis on the^llfch of October, 1774, with a general cargo and seventeen chests of the obnoxious tea. The consignees paid the duty on the tea, but some of the indignant citizens of the town and surrounding territory were not satisfied. Some suggested that the tea be burned, but an excited mob went to the house of
en
which was Lady Anne Arundel,
the daughter of Lord Arundel of
Wardour.
Annapolis was first known as
j"Town of Proctors," and later
I as " Anne Arundel Town.'' Its
name was changed to Annapolis
in 1694.
The city was not the first capital of Maryland. Leonard Calvert, first Lord Proprietary of the Province, set up his capital at St. Mary's City, from which place it was later removed to Annapolis, about 1649.
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The latter immediately became Mr. Stuart, owner of the brig, the chief city of the Province—a and demanded that he burn the position it maintained until the ship, together with the seventeen beginning of the Revolution. The chests of tea. They even threat-first state house was built in the ened to hang him if he refused, city in 1696, and a plat of the Stuart, accompanied by his friend, town made. The state house and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was the plat were both destroyed, forced to go to the harbor and with many valuable records, set fire to the Peggy Stuart, when the building was destroyed The famous brig was named for by fire in 1704. 'the daughter of her owner, and
On August 10, 1708, Annapolis the home of the Stuarts, before received its charter as a city, that which the mob collected and de-honor being granted by the Hon- manded the burning of the ship, orable John Seymour, the royal is still now the show place of Governor of Maryland. I Annapolis.
The city has a brilliant patriotic ' The city played a leading part record. During the French and in the struggle for independence. Indian War it displayed its loyal- On the grounds of the present ty by sending scores of volunteers state house of Maryland is an to assist General Braddock. I ancient, one-story brick building
Maryland was in the very fore-' in which, in 1786, commissioners front of the initial opposition of". from five states assembled and
the Colonies to British incroach-ments upon American rights as the period of the Revolution approached. No county in Mary-
took action leading to the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Three of Maryland's signers of the Declaration of Independence
land equalled Anne Arundel in]—William Paca, Charles Carroll fervid and immediate resistance; and Samuel Chase—resided in to England's efforts against the I Annapolis
privileges of America, and no city of the Colonies equalled Annapolis in acts of open rebellion to British authority.
When Zachariah Hood, a native of Annapolis, returned from England with the royal commission of Stamp Collector for Maryland, his vessel was met at the city dock at Annapolis by a number of citizens, who forcibly resisted his landing and drove away the king's officer, stamps and all. History relates that "the conflict between the citizens and the vessel's crew was so sharp that one
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In the old Senate Chamber, George Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on December 3, 1783. Here, also, Congress ratified the treaty with Great Britain at the close of the Revolution.
The decade immediately preceding the American Revolution was the golden age of Annapolis history. Annapolis was at this period the most famous, highly cultivated, and superlatively gay est city of the American Colonies The city was the seat of the pro prietary government, and for a time experienced all the intrigues and splendors of an European court. The city at this period was known as the "Paris of America" for its social life, and as the "Athens of America" for its cultural attainments.
Says our historian: "The governor's entertainments led the social festivities, and gave tone and zest to reciprocal hospitalities. The elegant homes of the gay and wealthy people, a dozen or more of which still remain in all their capacious proportions, show the opulence and luxury :n which they lived." ^X^X^^X^X^X^X^X^X^X^X^X^X4
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The staple export of the Province—tobacco—brought back the luxuries of foreign markets. TVonns of black slaves supplied the houses with perfect service. Lumbering equipages or old and rickety stage coaches, generally drawn by splendid horses, bore the colonists about the country, while in the city the sedan chair carried by black lackeys in rich liveries, was the favorite carriage of the ladies.
History relates that "these favored people sat on carved chairs at curious tables amid piles of ancestral silverware, and drank punch out of vast, costly bowls from Japan, or sipped Mareira, a half-century old.'"
This period in Annapolitan history is intimately described by Winston Churchill in his historical novel, "Richard Carvel."
Annapolis is still the capital of Maryland, and is one of the most delightful and interesting cities in our territory. The governmental machinery of Maryland, now grown into a great commonwealth, operates in the city on the American plan.
The State House occupies an
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