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    George Calvert (February 2, 1768 – January 28, 1838) was an American planter active in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Maryland. His plantation...
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  • to: George Henry Calvert (1803–1889), American writer, editor, essayist George Calvert (planter) (1768–1838), planter in Maryland George Calvert (bishop)...
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    Benedict Swingate Calvert (January 27, 1722 – January 9, 1788) was a planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution. He...
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  • Church of Canada George Calvert (planter) (1768–1838), planter in Maryland Giles Calvert (1612–1663), English printer Greg Calvert (1937–2005), American...
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    future, historically famous planter, lawyer, and female advocate for women's rights) as the executor of his estate. Calvert also named his friend and fellow...
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    founder George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and his descendants intended it as a refuge for persecuted Catholics. Carroll supported Charles Calvert, 3rd...
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    Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715) was an English colonial administrator and politician who represented Harwich...
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    Swingate Calvert was the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland, and a wealthy planter. They...
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    Antwerp. Calvert's father, the wealthy planter George Calvert (1768–1838), was the son of the Loyalist politician Benedict Swingate Calvert (c.1730–1788)...
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    John Parke Custis (category Calvert family)
    American planter and politician. Custis was a son of Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington) and Daniel Parke Custis, and later, the stepson of George Washington...
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    daughter of Ralph Darnall, and the first of Calvert's four wives. The Darnall family were wealthy Maryland planters, and also Roman Catholics. Tragically,...
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    and wife of President George Washington. His father John was the stepson of George Washington. His mother was Eleanor Calvert Custis. He and his sister...
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    Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751) was an English politician and colonial administrator who served as the proprietary...
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    wealthy planter in colonial Maryland. He inherited the estate of Dodon in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, from his father, planter and politician George H....
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    Palatinate, a proprietary palatinate granted to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, whose father, George, had long sought to found a colony in the New World...
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  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Calvert
    married her cousin Benedict Swingate Calvert, a Loyalist politician and planter and the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. Benedict's...
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  • merchant and planter in St. Mary's County. He married Elizabeth Sewall, widow of Dr. Jesse Wharton and a stepdaughter of Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore...
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    Colonial St. Mary's City was first envisioned by an English Lord, George Calvert. Calvert had been born in Yorkshire to a Catholic family, but when he was...
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  • George Hume Steuart, (1700–1784) was a Scottish physician, tobacco planter, and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland. Born in Perthshire, Steuart emigrated...
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    III (c. 1702 – c. 1783) was a wealthy planter in Colonial Maryland. He was the son of the politician and planter Henry Darnall II, and the grandson of...
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    revolted against the proprietary government led by the Catholic Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. The rebellion followed the "Glorious Revolution"...
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    Daniel Parke Custis (category 18th-century American planters)
    American planter and politician who was the first husband of Martha Dandridge. After his death, his widow, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington...
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  • Thomas Trueman (burgess) (category People from Calvert County, Maryland)
    1625-December 6, 1685) was a British attorney who also became a merchant, planter, politician and controversial military officer in the Maryland Colony....
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    (which includes Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties). Fitch Ratings assigned a 'AAA' bond rating to Prince George's County on August...
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  • Maryland politician and planter Dr George Steuart, an Edinburgh-trained physician who was a political ally of the ruling Calvert family. From around 1732-1747...
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    Carter Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. A member of the planter class, she had a privileged upbringing...
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    indigo. George Calvert received a charter from King Charles I to found the colony of Maryland in 1632. When George Calvert died, Cecilius Calvert, later...
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    Darnall's Chance (category Museums in Prince George's County, Maryland)
    Darnall (1645–1711), a wealthy Maryland Roman Catholic planter, Proprietary Agent of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and, for a time, Deputy Governor...
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    Bonaparte, 1804 George Calvert, politician and planter, 1804 Rosalie Stier Calvert, Belgian-born heiress and wife of George Calvert John Carroll, first...
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    Rosaryville State Park (category Calvert family residences)
    lived at Mount Airy, and died there on January 9, 1788. Calvert was a politician and planter in colonial Maryland. Mount Airy was most likely a gift from...
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