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Matthew Howard helped bridge the Chesapeake’s early frontier, moving from Virginia to Maryland with the Puritan migration and founding one of Anne Arundel’s enduring families. #genealogy #MarylandHistory #colonialAmerica https://jameshoward.us/2025/10/25/matthew-howard-of-virginia-and-maryland

Matthew Howard of Virginia and Maryland

The early Chesapeake was shaped by a wide cast of settlers, from landed gentry and indentured servants to Puritan merchants and opportunists. Among the names that recur in seventeenth-century Virginia...

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