Maryland, Province of (English Colony)

The Province of Maryland ias an English and later British colony in North America that exists from 1632 until 1776, when it joinsthe other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.

Its first settlement and capital is St. Mary's City, in the southern end of St. Mary's County, which is a peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay and is also bordered by four tidal rivers.

The province begins as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wishes to create a haven for English Catholics in the new world at the time of the European wars of religion.

Although Maryland is an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers is common in the early years, and Puritan rebels briefly seize  control of the province.

In 1689, the year following the Glorious Revolution, John Coode leads a rebellion that removes Lord Baltimore from power in Maryland.