The Colony of Maryland

The dependence of free state is a very unique colony in many different ways. The colony was formed in 1634 by two hundred emigrants, mostly papistical Catholics. With the founding of Maryland came the first permanent proprietary government of America, that is, a government by a lord proprietor, who, holding his authority by virtue of a royal charter, nevertheless exercised that authority almost as an independent sovereign. Maryland is surrounded by the three colonies Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and it surrounds Chesapeake Bay, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.The climate of colonial Maryland varied it had four distinct seasons, with comparatively hot, humid summers and cool or cold winters. Some of the occupations of Maryland were blacksmiths, weavers, farmers, butchers, wheelwrights, carpenters, and several(prenominal) others. In the year 1639, a representative government was established in Maryland. It was crude in form, but possessed the prolific seeds of a elusive rep ublicanism. The freemen chose as many representatives as they pleased.So did the proprietor. These, with the governor appointed by the proprietor, and a secretary, composed the government of Maryland. The ethnic groups in the colony were mostly slope and Dutchman. There were several social customs in colonial Maryland. For example, family liveness in Maryland was different from a modern family. Children were employed as apprentices at age 7, and each member of the family has a specific quality in the homes finances and maintenance.Most of the people in Maryland were Catholic, in which made the colony one of the few predominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in North America. Maryland was also one of the winder destinations where the government sent tens of thousands of English convicts punished by sentences of transportation. The colony had no difficulties with the native population, actually it was the opposite. Archihu, chief of the Potomac Indians, welcomed the colonists with open arms in 1634.The natives taught the settlers how to physique wigwams and palisade fences for their villages. Inside their villages, the settlers learned how to establish gardens and grow such vegetables as maize, beans, squash, potatoes, and pumpkins foods which they had never seen in England. The settlers were taught many more things from the indispensable Americans, but the populations of the Native American tribes decreased significantly due to the settlers diseases that the natives had no cures for.