One more comment?
I believe the heirs trying to get the lands back were the Chenowith-Calverts
and this branch of the Calvert family is now thought to be descended from
Quaker families and not related to the Lords Baltimore.
Joanne Calvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Calvert" <j.calvert(a)attbi.com>
To: <CALVERT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: RE: [CALVERT] CALVERT Suit against BALTIMORE?
Carolyn's message came in right after I sent my response. Please
ignore
my
response.
Jim
At 09:51 AM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>In 2000 a number of us had the same interest and the following is from a
old
>email. I hope this help you.
>*******
>I have a letter from another person and Letters of my GGRANDFATHER
William
>Marion Calvert MD, who mentions Mrs Bourgeoise coming to visit
them for
>interviews.
>
>I found my Anita Calvert Bourgeoise BOOK, "The Calvert Family of
>Maryland and Virginia"
>
>There is a stamped date in the book "St. Louis, MO. Public Library, Oct
4,
>1919". The book was copywriter in 1916. So the book is at
least 83
years
old.
>
>Thanks to Debbie Wodickers of High Ridge, MO who was kind enough to go to
>the library and make me a copy as the library would not lend it our on
>library loan. I had located two books one in St. Louis, MO and the other
>Fort Wayne, Allen CO., Ind.
>
>Dan Whitmire sent me a copy of a Anita Calvert Bourgeoise letter head
letter.
>
>Email from Elizabeth Calvert a news paper clipping among her grandmothers
>notes.
>
>Newspaper clipping: "Kansas City, Mo., Jan 5, 1913 - The Western Calvert
>Heirs' Association met here today and resolved to take up the fight of
>possession of the lands in and around the city of Baltimore that were
>granted in the 17th century to Lord Baltimore by King James I of England.
>The estate, for which the association assert they will soon open a legal
>contest, has an estimated value of $600,000,000."
>
>Here are some other email that may be interested in joining our search.
>They chatted were on the Calvert email last year when the subject on the
>Calvert Heirs came up. Greg Nelson said that the lawsuit was actually
filed
>in Baltimore, and that the family lost their claim. If you want
to look
for
>the suit, I would expect to find it filed in the late 20s or
early 30s,
and
>to be title Calvert Heirs v. City of Baltimore. They were still
trying
to
>raise money when Cora Hiatt published her Chenaweth history which
was
Greg
>Nelson's line.
>Carolyn Joy
>*******
>The case was filed in the Maryland Supreme Court then withdrawn and
>filed in the US Supreme Court.
>*******
> Someone in this group has the book by Mrs. Bourgeooise. She was the
>attorney and Genealogist that handled the case. I to have old letters
that
>discuss the case. And mention my family sending money for the
legal fees.
I
>hope to see the book done by Mrs., Bourgeoise.
>
>Henry Turner
>*******
>Your mention of Anita Calvert Bourgeoise fits with what I know. A letter
>that I have dated 1915 is written from Attorney Alexine Hobbs Craig of
>Gallatin Co. KY. My research indicates that she was a cousin through my
>Hobbs line. Apparently she was the daughter of my 3rd ggrandmother,
Nancy
>Hobbs's youngest brother, Emory Hobbs. Alexine's letter
urges her
cousin,
>Mary Speer to gather the cousins together "to write to
everyone of your
>Calvert line" and prepare for the great legal battle which will surely
>regain our rightful inheritance that the greatest legal minds are
working
>on this etc etc and that everyone should contact Mrs Anita
Calvert
>Bourgeoise oh yeah I think that they were also urged to write to
their
>congressmen etc.
>Teri
>*******
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DJames Adams [mailto:montanan2@worldnet.att.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:27 AM
>To: CALVERT-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: [CALVERT] CALVERT Suit against BALTIMORE?
>
>
>
>Hi All,
> I heard from a cousin that our CALVERTs sent their family records,
>bibles and other papers to someone who was trying to prove relationship
to
>the CALVERTs who were trying to win a Court Case. While it sounds
a
little
>scammy; if it did happen, does anyone know what happened to all
the
records,
>documents and what else? I am not sure but supposedly this must
have been
>50-60 years ago, or more.
> My interest is Genealogically related to, which of the wives of
Hezekiah
>"Hazzard" WOOD (b.1774 likely in Md.) was the mother to
my GG Grandmother
>Lucinda WOOD b. abt 1800, ie,was she the GENTRY or the BRADLEY; any info
>appreciated,
>JA
>
>
>
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