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Sir George Calvert Baltimore (?1580-1632). A British statesman. "Although the King had tried to dissuade him from his project, he finally obtained (in 1632) a grant of the territory which was called "Maryland" by Charles I in honor of the Queen." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol II, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 599.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 366.
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