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Maryland's "first families" are traditionally the descendants of Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) and of those passengers who came on the Ark and the Dove in 1634.
Robert Middleton arrived in Maryland before 1671. His 1672 marriage to Mary Wheeler carried with it her father's gift of 300 acres called Wheeler's Hope
The first trace of William Ridgely is the 1690 purchase of Abbington, a 200-acre estate at the head of South River, not far from the present Annapolis, Maryland.
Thomas Allanson, born in 1637, is thought to have arrived in America before 1656, then returned to England, where he married Elizabeth Mary Roberts in 1662.
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