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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Annapolis, (search)
Annapolis, City. county seat of Anne Arundel county, and capital of the State of Maryland: on the Severn River, 20 miles south by east of Baltimore: is the seat of the United States Naval Academy and of St. John's College; population in 1890, 7,604; 1900, 8,402. Puritan refugees from Massachusetts, led by Durand, a ruling elder, settled on the site of Annapolis in 1649, and, in imitation of Roger Williams, called the place Providence. The next year a commissioner of Lord Baltimore organized there the county of Anne Arundel, so named in compliment to Lady Baltimore, and Providence was called Anne Arundel Town. A few years later it again bore the name of Providence, and became the seat of Protestant influence and of a Protestant government, disputing the legislative authority with the Roman Catholic government at the ancient capital, St. Mary's. In 1694 the latter was abandoned as the capital of the province, and the seat of government was established on the Severn. The villag
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkins, Johns 1795-1873 (search)
Hopkins, Johns 1795-1873 Philanthropist; born in Anne Arundel county, Md., May 19, 1795; went to Baltimore in 1812 and entered a wholesale grocery store; and soon afterwards established himself in the trade. In 1822 he founded the house of Hopkins & Brothers, in which he made a large fortune. He retired from the grocery business in 1847, and engaged in banking and railroad enterprises; became director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; and chairman of its finance committee in 1855. He aided in founding the Johns Hopkins Hospital, free to all, to which he gave property valued at $4,500,000, in 1873; presented the city of Baltimore with a public park; and gave $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University (q. v.). He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 24, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
Maryland (1649) the Puritans in Virginia were severely persecuted because they refused to use the Church liturgy, and 118 of them left that colony. Their pastor, Mr. Harrison, returned to England; but nearly all the others, led by their ruling elder, Mr. Durand, went to Maryland, and settled on the banks of the Severn River, near the site of Annapolis, and called the place Providence. The next year Governor Stone visited them and organized the settlement into a shire, and called it Anne Arundel county, in compliment to the wife of Lord Baltimore. These Puritans gave the proprietor considerable trouble. Puritanism was exhibited in its most radical form in New England, for there it had freedom of action. The Puritan was not a sufferer, but an aggressor. He was the straitest of his sect. He was an unflinching egotist, who regarded himself as his brother's keeper, and was continually busied in watching and guiding him. His constant business seemed to be to save his fellow-men fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
ns permission of the lord proprietary's government to settle with his people at Providence or Anne Arundel, now Annapolis......1649 Commission granted by Lord Baltimore to Robert Brooke, as command general pardon......Nov. 15, 1649 Settlement at Providence organized into a county called Anne Arundel......July 30, 1650 Act passed by the Assembly punishing by death and confiscation of propef the dissolution or resignation in England of Lord Baltimore's patents leads the Puritans of Anne Arundel to refuse to send any burgesses or delegates to the General Assembly at St. Mary's when summo200 men and twelve vessels, Governor Stone proceeds by land and water against the Puritans of Anne Arundel......March 20, 1655 People of Providence having prepared for an invasion, a battle ensues ners and trustees ......1696 State-house destroyed by fire, and many of the records of Anne Arundel county burned......1704 Royal charter of incorporation granted Annapolis by Governor Seymour.