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The Hon. Leonard Calvert was the first proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the second son of The 1st Baron Baltimore , the first proprietor of Maryland. His elder brother Cecil , who inherited the colony and the title upon the death of their father George, April 15, 1632, appointed Leonard as governor of the Colony in his absence. Wikipedia  

✵ 1606 – 9. June 1647
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“There is nothing does more endanger the loss of commerce with the Indians than want of truck to barter with them.”

Leonard Calvert

Cited by Bernard C. Steiner in " Beginnings of the Provincial Trade https://books.google.com/books?id=-WNAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40," in Beginnings of Maryland 1631–1639 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1903), p. 40.

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