Calverts in Carolina

Following the more or less failure at the colony of Avalon (Newfoundland) by the 1st Lord Baltimore, George Calvert he returned to England to campaign for support of a Mid Atlantic Colony to King Charles in 1631. This quickly came into conflict with Virginia and the likes of William Claiborne who battled against the Lord Baltimore against setting up a colony in the Chesapeake Bay which they saw as rightfully Virginian.

At one point during this, Charles offered to Calvert the rights of Proprieter Governor for the Province of Carolina but Calvert continued to covet for territory north of the Potomac river which he eventually got-becoming the State of Maryland. Following his death though Virginia would still have designs on Maryland, even fighting Maryland and encouraging a Puritain takeover of the Catholic haven.

Now what if Calvert had accepted Carolina?

From the outset it would be interesting for two map reasons because then likely Virginia would extend up the entire length of the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina would not be split amongst the 'Proprieter Lords' in 1663, instead quite possibly staying as one large colony.

This could mean that Carolina stays a Catholic haven colony if Virginian interests leave them be and continue with colonization along the Chesapeake Bay and northwest. This could even boost the power of the Calvert family in the Americas, butterflys may even let them keep Avalon and not go into a slow decadant crash.
 
Following his death though Virginia would still have designs on Maryland, even fighting Maryland and encouraging a Puritain takeover of the Catholic haven.

I believe ya, but any links or more info on this? I always wondered why we don't have more 'Maryland subsumed into Virginia' bits like we do with Delaware being swallowed up by Pennsylvania or PEI becoming a part of Nova Scotia again.

ANYWAY. Carolina at the time was far too large for keeping as one big colony, so a North-South split is still going to happen. And it was also big and powerful enough once developed that the royals would desire more direct control and the big amount of colonists would want autonomy, so the Calverts may very well end up losers and shunted out of control anyway.

Geographically, though, having Virginia keep all of its original land claims at least above Carolina may mean smaller colonies outside New England aren't split up or formed into existence - no Delaware or PEI, maybe even no New Jersey? Hell, let's venture into near-ASB territory and say all the New England colonies stay a big ole' Province of New England after the Dominion of NE collapses....
 
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