In November of 1640 the "Long" Parliament convenes in England and a Civil War erupted two years later. Sir William Berkeley replaced Sir Francis Wyatt as royal governor of Virginia in 1642. Lord Baltimore, to attract settlers, sent notice that all creeds will be protected in the Maryland Colony. That same year, 1643, the Virginia assembly enacted a law banishing non-conformist ministers. By 1644 the Puritans, persecuted by Governor Berkeley in the Virginia Colony, begin migrating to the Maryland Colony. On 06 August 1648 Lord Baltimore appointed William Stone, a Virginia Protestant as Maryland’s Governor, This caused several hundred Puritans under Richard Bennett to leave Virginia and settle Providence, near the present site of Annapolis.

30 April 1652 entered eight years of almost complete self-government. A bit later, 25 March 1655, a civil war erupted in Maryland whereby the Puritans deposed Governor William Stone; however, Lord Baltimore’s authority was restored in Maryland late in 1657. Very soon thereafter, in 1658, John Howard Jr. removed to the Maryland Colony. John died __ ___ 1696 in Round Bay, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. John married Susanna Norwood about 1666 in Round Bay, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.

John Howard and Susanna Norwood had at least one child:

1. John Howard Jr., b. about 1767 in Round Bay, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland; d. about 1703 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland; md. Mrs. Katherine (Greenberry) Ridgely about 1674 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.