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Description In 1638, Maryland’s first government administrator, John Lewger, built a new house at St. Mary’s City on a tract he named St. John’s. The Lewger home became the busy center of one of the earliest tobacco plantations in the colony, as well as being the site of colonial Maryland's first legislative assemby. in 1642, a freedman named Mathias de Sousa served in the Assembly and was the first person of African descent to vote in an American legislature. Six years later, Margaret Brent attended another meeting at St. John’s and requested the right to vote. Although denied to her, she became the first woman in American to ask for “voyce and vote” in government. In the 1660s, St. John’s became the home of Governor Charles Calvert, and during his occupation, Susquehannock Indian chiefs signed an important treaty there. Later, St. John’s served as a public ordinary or inn, and records office. After witnessing over 75 years of Maryland’s early history, St. John’s finally succumb to decay and was abandoned around 1715.
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