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From: "David Roberts" <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY] Leonardtown & Leonard Hall
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:43:51 -0400
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Leonardtown is named for EITHER [pick your source]
a. Leonard Calvert [brother of Cecil Calvert]
b. Benedict Leonard Calvert [one of the 18th century Lords Baltimore].

Traditionally, it's said to be for the original Leonard; but, I'm not so
sure it wasn't named for Benedict Leonard. When the town was established in
the early 18th century it was Seymourtown; after Governor Seymour, a royal
governor of Maryland during the period in which Maryland was ruled directly
by the Crown; after the Roman Catholic Calverts lost the colony & before
later Calvert converted to Anglicanism & got the colony back.

Leonard Hall was named in the early 20th century either for Leonard Calvert,
I believe, or for Leonardtown, itself. The "Hall" part is the common name
for a school ... you see this in Charlotte Hall or in the famous Nassau Hall
in New Jersey [now Princeton].

Other comments ?

David

David Roberts
Hollywood, MD



----- Original Message -----
From: "marianne dillow" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:11 AM
Subject: [MDSTMARY] LEONARD HALL and JOHANNA LETTON


> I was wondering if Leonardtown, MD and the Leonard Hall Junior Naval
School was named after LEONARD HALL that married JOHANNA LETTON, daughter of
CALEB LETTON and MARY GRACE BURTON ?
>
> Does anyone have the history on this subject matter ?
>
> Thank You,
> Marianne Dillow


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