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1767. May 13..Duty imposed on tea. 1772. The second State House was torn down, and the foundation of the 1774. October 19..Burning of the " Peggy Stewart. " 1775. July 26..Formation of "Association of Freeman." 1776. July 3..Maryland declared her independence. 1776. November 10..First State Constitution adopted. 1777. March 21..Thomas Johnson, first State Governor, inaugurated. 1781. March I..Maryland entered the Confederation. 1782. Washington College, Chestertown, incorporated. 1783. November 26..Continental Congress met in Annapolis. 1783. December 23..Washington resigned his military commission to Congress in old Senate Chamber of Capitol, Annapolis. 1784. Saint John's College, Annapolis, chartered. 1784. Cokesbury College, the first Methodist institution for higher educa- 1786. December 11..First steamboat in the United States, invented by 1786. September 11..Convention. of six States to inaugurate movement 1786. The Pope appointed Rev. John Can-oil Apostolic Vicar, afterwards 1788. April 28..Maryland ratified Federal Constitution. 1791. Maryland ceded the District of Columbia to the United States. 1792. September..Rev. Thomas John Claggett consecrated the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland. Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner." Carroll of Carrollton. 1836. Obed Hussey, of Baltimore, the inventor of the first reaper and |
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