Editing Georgetown University (section)

===Founding===
[[File:John Carroll Gilbert Stuart.jpg|thumb|[[John Carroll (archbishop)|John Carroll]], the first [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore|Archbishop of Baltimore]] and founder of Georgetown University in 1789|alt=A painting of an elderly man seated wearing a long gray robe.]]

In 1634, [[Jesuit]] settlers from England founded the [[Province of Maryland]] in [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial-era]] [[British America]].<ref name=jstor>{{cite journal |title=Miniatures of Georgetown, 1634 to 1934 |first1=Edward A. |last1=Fitzpatrick |journal=The Journal of Higher Education |volume=7 |issue=1 |date=January 1936 |pages=56–57 |doi=10.2307/1974310 |last2=Nevils |first2=William Coleman |jstor=1974310 |publisher=[[Ohio State University Press]]}}</ref> In 1646, the defeat of the [[Cavalier|Royalists]] in the [[English Civil War]] led to stringent laws against [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] education and the extradition of known Jesuits from the colony, including missionary [[Andrew White (missionary)|Andrew White]], and the destruction of their school at Calverton Manor.<ref name=Nevils>{{harvnb|Nevils|1934|pp=1–25}}</ref> During most of the remainder of Maryland's colonial period, Jesuits conducted Catholic schools clandestinely. Following the end of the [[American Revolutionary War]], plans to establish a permanent Catholic institution for education in the United States were realized.<ref name=ce>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06458a.htm |title=Georgetown University |encyclopedia=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]] |year=1909 |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |first=E.I. |last=Devitt |access-date=July 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701232855/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06458a.htm |archive-date=July 1, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>

At [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s recommendation, [[Pope Pius VI]] appointed former Jesuit [[John Carroll (archbishop)|John Carroll]] the first [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore|head of the Catholic Church in the United States]], even though the papal [[Suppression of the Society of Jesus|suppression of the Jesuit order]] was still in effect. Carroll began meetings of local clergy in 1783 near [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], where they orchestrated the development of a new university.<ref name=ben/> On January 23, 1789, Carroll finalized the purchase of the property in Georgetown on which Dahlgren Quadrangle was later built.<ref name=loyola/> Future Congressman [[William Gaston]] was enrolled as the school's first student on November 22, 1791, and instruction began on January 2, 1792.<ref name=ben>{{harvnb|Curran|1993|pp=33–34}}</ref>