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| '''1649''' Maryland passed the {{wpd|Maryland_Toleration_Act|Religious Toleration Act}} to protect Catholics and immigrating Puritans from each other and create an environment to attract more immigrants. <ref>{{MDTol}}</ref> Eight years of religious wars followed anyway. | | '''1649''' Maryland passed the {{wpd|Maryland_Toleration_Act|Religious Toleration Act}} to protect Catholics and immigrating Puritans from each other and create an environment to attract more immigrants. <ref>{{MDTol}}</ref> Eight years of religious wars followed anyway. |
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| Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of {{wpd|Penal_transportation| transported British convicts}}. <ref>{{MDHist}} </ref>Prior to 1776 three-fourths of immigrants were convicts, slaves, {{wpd|Indentured_servants|indentured servants}}, or became indentured servants to pay for their passage to America. For information about convicts and indentured servants see the works of Peter Wilson Coldham indexed in [http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=40 Ancestry.com], a subscription web site. [[Image:{{MDcolony}}]] | | Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of {{wpd|Penal_transportation| transported British convicts}}. <ref>{{MDHist}} </ref>Prior to 1776 three-fourths of immigrants were convicts, slaves, {{wpd|Indentured_servants|indentured servants}}, or became indentured servants to pay for their passage to America. For information about convicts and indentured servants see the works of Peter Wilson Coldham indexed in [http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=40 Ancestry.com], a subscription web site. |
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| '''1682''' Pennsylvania began to assert ownership of what became [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]] and northern parts of Maryland. The Maryland citizens resisted including the murder of a pushy Pennsylvania tax collector. These border conflicts would not be fully resolved until the drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between 1763 and 1767. <ref>Richard Wilson, and Jack Bridner, ''{{WorldCat|8530259}} Maryland: Its Past and Present'' (Lanham, Md.: Maryland Historical Press, 1981) ▲ {{FHL|549692|item|disp=FHL Book 975.2 H2wi}}, 83-84.</ref> | | '''1682''' Pennsylvania began to assert ownership of what became [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]] and northern parts of Maryland. The Maryland citizens resisted including the murder of a pushy Pennsylvania tax collector. These border conflicts would not be fully resolved until the drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between 1763 and 1767. <ref>Richard Wilson, and Jack Bridner, ''{{WorldCat|8530259}} Maryland: Its Past and Present'' (Lanham, Md.: Maryland Historical Press, 1981) ▲ {{FHL|549692|item|disp=FHL Book 975.2 H2wi}}, 83-84.</ref> |