{"id":210,"date":"2015-03-26T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/03\/26\/maryland-day-march-25th\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:21","slug":"maryland-day-march-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/03\/26\/maryland-day-march-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Day, March 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On November 22nd, 1633, intrepid travelers sailed from the English Isle of Wight on two small ships, the <i>Ark <\/i>and the <i>Dove<\/i>, &nbsp;for a four-month long journey that would eventually land them on St. Clement\u2019s Island in what is now St. Mary\u2019s County, Maryland.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>They became the first English settlers to set foot on Maryland soil on March 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 1634.&nbsp; This date has been formally observed as Maryland Day since 1903, and was made a legal holiday by the Maryland General Assembly in 1916.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~wjohn55447\/Ark%20&amp;%20Dove.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Interested in learning more about the settlers of the original 13 colonies?&nbsp; Check out Langsdale Library\u2019s archival collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/special-collections\/a-z-holdings-list\/order-of-the-founders-and-patriots-of-america.cfm\">Order of the Founders &amp;Patriots (OFB)<\/a>, a male lineage society established in 1896.&nbsp; Just be sure to contact University Archivist Ben Blake (<a href=\"mailto:bblake@ubalt.edu\">bblake@ubalt.edu<\/a>) in advance \u2013 written permission from the donor society may be required.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22nd, 1633, intrepid travelers sailed from the English Isle of Wight on two small ships, the Ark and the Dove, &nbsp;for a four-month long journey that would eventually land them on St. Clement\u2019s Island in what is now <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/03\/26\/maryland-day-march-25th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Maryland Day, March 25th<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}