Maryland, source of name (McSherry, History of Maryland, 1849)
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[...] Remembering his services to his father, and perhaps moved by the intercessions of Henrietta Maria, his Catholic queen, who desired to secure an asylum abroad for the persecuted members of her church in England, Charles directed the patent to be issued. It was prepared by Lord Baltimore himself; but before it was finally executed, that truly great and good man died, and the patent was delivered to his son Cecilius, who succeeded as well to his noble designs, as to his titles and estates.
The charter was issued on the 20th of June, 1632, and the new province, in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, was named Terra Mariæ---Maryland.
McSherry, James, History of Maryland; from its first settlement in 1634, to the year 1848, Baltimore: Printed and published by John Murphy, 1849, p. 24.
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