Religious Views
In Maryland, we want to create a haven for English Catholics and want to prove that Catholics and Protestants can live together peacefully. Calvert himself converted to Catholicism. The Calvert family recruited Catholic aristocrats and Protestant settlers for Maryland, persuading them with generous land grants and a policy of religious toleration. Of the 200 or so settlers who traveled to Maryland on the ships Ark and Dove, the majority were Protestant. In fact, Protestants remained in the majority throughout the history of colonial Maryland.