Margaret Brent’s Request for Voting Rights

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Margaret Brent’s Requestfor Voting Rights
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-029

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Margaret Brent was an early colonist in Maryland, at the time an English colony where any Christian—Catholic, Anglican, or otherwise—could live freely. Brent’s family was Catholic, arriving in 1638, and she, her sister, and two brothers worked to make a life for themselves as traders in St. Mary’s City, deep in the Chesapeake Bay. Since there were so few colonists in the new colony, everyone knew everyone else, and Margaret made a name for herself quickly as a responsible businesswoman and landowner. She was very well known to the Calvert family, who owned the colony as a private, religiously tolerant concern.

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