Project Description
- (1770s-1780s)
- Calvert County History (continued from page 17)
- Calvert Countians Participate in the Continental Congress in 1774
- Calvert County Contributes to a State Militia
- End of Proprietary Rule in Maryland
- Militia Organized in Calvert County County to Protect It From Danger
- War in the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay During the Revolution
- Independence and Statehood for Maryland
- Rezin Beall Considered Unpopular Leader
- Calvert Countians Helped to Pay Price for Liberty
- Calvert County Prepared for Invasion by Lord Cornwallis in 1777
- New Maryland Government
- Thomas Johnson, First Maryland Governor, was Born in Calvert County in 1732
- Calvert County Contributed Heavily to Expenses of War
- Calvert County Helped to Feed Troops in 1780
- Thomas Johnson Succeeded by Thomas Sim Lee in 1779
- Americans Vessels Blockaded in Patuxent River in 1780
- British Burned and Destroyed Rousby Hall and Other Calvert County homes in 1780
Americans Captured British Vessel Off Patuxent Mouth in 1781 - Benjamin Mackall’s Home Destroyed by British in 1783
- State Constitution Drawn Up Beginning in 1784
- Maryland Ratifies the Constitution in 1788
- Thomas Gantt Helped Draft the Bill of Rights in 1789