Our family's oral tradition says that they (Cortland, New York, branch of the
Calvert family) are descended from the Rev. Henry Calvert of Yorkshire,
England. He married the sister of the Rev. Robert Blair. In 1623 he was
called to the church at
Oldstone ,County Down. In 1636 he was deposed and went to Scotland. He was
called to Paisley in 1641 and died there June 1653.
The Rev. Robert Blair was born in Scotland in 1593 and died at Meikle
Couston, Aberdeen in 1666. He was called to the church at Bangor, County
Down, in 1623 and later excommunicated.
"In 1636, Robert Blair, Robert Hamilton, John McClelland and John Livingstone
organized a group of 140 Scottish settlers to emigrate to New England. They
set sail in September,1636, and when half way across, were driven back by
storms.
The ministers to escape arrest, fled to Scotland, accompanied by many of
their adherents. At this time Scotland had become a safe refuge." Margaret
D. Falley in Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research, vol 1, p. 385.
I look forward to hearing from researchers who are interested in the Rev.
Henry Calvert and his descendants Robet H. Calvert.