Attracting Settlers to the Maryland Frontier…
Charles Calvert, the 5th Lord Baltimore, was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. Settlement in western Maryland was slow, so in 1732 he developed a plan to “increase the number of honest people within our province of Maryland”. Calvert offered 200 acres of land to settlers free of charge, provided they establish a farm with an orchard of 100 trees. After 3 years, taxes were to be paid on the land. This attractive offer encouraged settlement in the Maryland frontier.
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