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Лорд Джордж Калверт, 1-й барон Балтимор — английский государственный деятель и колонизатор. Член парламента и государственный секретарь при короле Якове I.

Положил начало штату Мэриленд, который был предоставлен в его распоряжение королевской хартией 1625 года; по его имени назван основанный в 1729 году мэрилендский город Балтимор. После его смерти мэрилендские земли были унаследованы его сыновьями Сесилом и Леонардом . Wikipedia  

✵ 1578 – 15. Апрель 1632
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“I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.”

To Thomas Wentworth, cited by Luca Codignola in The Coldest Harbour of the Land (Québec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), p. 43.
Контексте: [B]eing bound for a long Journey to a Place which I have had a long Desire to visit, and have now the Opportunity and Leave to do: It is Newfoundland I mean, which imports me more than in Curiosity only to see; for I must either go and settle it in a better Order than it is, or else give it over, and lose all the Charges I have been at hitherto for other Men to build their Fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a Fool for some by the Hazard of one Month's journey, than to prove myself one certainly for six Years by past, if the Business be now lost for some want of a little Pains and Care.

“I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.”

To Secretary of State Sir John Coke, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).

“[T]hus your Lordship hoe know is life and is my baby." sees that we Papists want not Charity towards you Protestants, whatsoever the less understanding Part of the World think of us.”

To Thomas Wentworth, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).