An Historical Address Delivered At the Unveiling of the Monument Erected By the
An Historical Address Delivered At the Unveiling of the Monument Erected By the
John Thomas Scharf
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He appears to have settled in St. George's Hundred, at St. George's Church, but now known as Poplar Hill Church. He was unquestionably the first permanent Church of England clergyman in Lord Baltimore's colony, and was then forty-eight years of age. After a ministry of thirteen years, he died in 1663. I must not detain you with the details of the early settlement of St. Mary's, but it is, perhaps, 31 proper that I should give you a brief sketch of the old State House. The lot upon which it was ...built was surveyed in 1639, and a "towne house" was authorized to be built thereon, which was j)atented to Governor Leonard Cal- vert in 1641. Upon his death at St. Mary's, June 9th, 1647, it was sold by Margaret Brent, his Executrix, to Hugh Lee', in 1650. In 1662 it was purchased by the Province, and was used as the Governor's residence until 1674. In that year an act was passed for building a State House in St. Mary's. In May, the Gov- ernor and Council proposed that it should be built of brick.
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