<P> The region was depicted in a map by Estêvão Gomes and Diego Gutiérrez, made in 1562, in the context of the Spanish Ajacán Mission of the sixteenth century . </P> <P> George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland . After Calvert died in April 1632, the charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin Terra Mariae) was granted to his son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632 . Some historians viewed this as compensation for his father having been stripped of his title of Secretary of State in 1625 after announcing his Roman Catholicism . </P> <P> Officially the colony is said to be named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I. Some Catholic scholars believe that George Calvert named the province after Mary, the mother of Jesus . The name in the charter was phrased Terra Mariae, anglice, Maryland . The English name was preferred due to the undesired associations of Mariae with the Spanish Jesuit Juan de Mariana, linked to the Inquisition . </P> <P> As did other colonies, Maryland used the headright system to encourage people to bring in new settlers . Led by Leonard Calvert, Cecil Calvert's younger brother, the first settlers departed from Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, on November 22, 1633, aboard two small ships, the Ark and the Dove . Their landing on March 25, 1634, at St. Clement's Island in southern Maryland is commemorated by the state each year on that date as Maryland Day . This was the site of the first Catholic mass in the Colonies, with Father Andrew White leading the service . The first group of colonists consisted of 17 gentlemen and their wives, and about two hundred others, mostly indentured servants . </P>

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