Just a note, this book "proves" ancestory for several different people down
from the original Baltimores. Would be happy to post those "proofs" as well
if there is interest.
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Charles, Lord Baltimore, sent his son, Benedict, to the Province of
Maryland from England in the charge of a governor and bestowed
upon
him wealth and offices and honors. Benedict, evidently, wrote to
his
father trying to learn the identity of his mother and Lord
Baltimore
replied to his son that she was too great a lady to be named in
writing, and that the secret of his birth would not be confided
to
him until his return to England.
He was appointed Collector of Customs at Patuxent and in 1745
became
a member of the Council. He made his home at "Mt. Airy," in
Prince
George's Co., Md., and d--there on Jan. 9, 1788. He m--April 21,
1748, Elizebeth Calvert, dau--of the Hon. Charles Calvert
(Governor
of Md., 1720-27), and Rebecca Gerrard, his wife. There is a
charming
story that when Benedict Calvert wished to take unto himself a
wife
he wrote for his father's permission without giving the name of
the
lady of his choice. Lord Baltimore answered that there was only
one
woman he knew of in America whom he would be willing for his son
to
marry, and that was his cousin, Betty Calvert.
Benedict Calvert and his wife, Elizebeth, had issue the
following:
(1) Rebecca Calvert, b--Dec. 15, 1749, d--in infancy; (2)
Eleanor
Calvert, b--1754, d--Sept. 28, 1811, m--first--Feb. 3, 1774,
Col.
John Parke Custis, the step-son of Gen. George Washington. Her
second m--was in 1783 to Dr. David Stewart; (3) Charles Calvert,
b--Oct. 3, 1756, d--unm--1777; (4) Elizebeth Calvert, m--1780,
Dr.
Charles Stewart, descendant of Robert II of Scotland; (5) Edward
Henry Calvert, b--Nov. 7, 1766, d--July 12, 1846, m--March 1,
1796,
Elizebeth, the beautiful dau--of Maj. George Biscoe. Edward
Henry
and Elizebeth inherited the Mount Airy manor when Benedict
Calvert
d--. Of them below; (6) George Calvert, who acquired
Riversdale,--of
whom below; (7) Phillip Calvert, d--young; (8) Leonard Calvert,
d--young; (9) Cecil Calvert, d--young; (10) John Calvert,
d--after
1788; (11) William Calvert, d--after 1788; (12) Ariana Calvert,
d--after 1788; (13) Robert Calvert, d--young.
Edward Henry Calvert, the fifth of the above mentioned children,
and
his lovely wife, Elizebeth, dau--of George and Araminto
(Thompson)
Biscoe, had thirteen ch--of whom only three left survivors:
George,
b--1798, d--1845; John--of whom below; and William Biscoe
Calvert,
b--1813, d--1876.
John Calvert, above mentioned, was b--at Mt. Airy, Prince
George's
Co., Md., Jan. 8, 1809, d--March 9, 1869; he m--June 1, 1854,
Julia
Stockton Rush, b--Philadelphia, July 21, 1826, and d--Jan. 20,
1858,
dau--of the Hon. Richard Rush and grand dau--of the
distinguished
Dr. Benjamin Rush. John and Julia (Rush) Calvert had two sons:
(1)
John Calvert Jr., b--in Washington, D. C., March 9, 1855;
graduated
from Lehigh University, 1876, as civil engineer; joined the
prominent shipbuilding firm of Peter Wright & Sons; later the
publishing firm of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, and
finally
the Pennsylvania Co., etc., of Philadelphia. He m--Oct. 26,
1881,
Victoria B. Elliott Issue: (a) Cecil Baltimore Calvert, b--Sept
11,
1882, graduated, 1905, University of Penna. In business with his
father. (2) Madison Rush Calvert, b--Jan. 12, 1858,
m--first--Aug.
1, 1881, Josephine R. Wheeler; secondly--Margaret Agnes Mahoney.
George Calvert, the sixth child of Benedict and Elizebeth
Calvert,
was b--at Mount Airy, Feb. 2nd, 1768. He m--June 11th, 1799, in
Annapolis, Md., the lovely Rosalie Eugenia Stier, dau--of Heneri
Joseph and Maria Louise (Peters) Stier, of Antwerp, Belgium. Mr.
Stier and his family had fled from Belgium to escape the
confiscation of Napoleon, who was then invading Flanders. Henri
Joseph Stier was a banker in the Netherlands and possessed a
valuable collection of paintings, among which there were nine by
the
great Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, a relative of the
owner,
and four by Van Dyke and others by great artists of Europe. He
chartered a vessel for which the following passport was issued
by
the American Minister to England:
"By Thomas Pinkney, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States of
America at the Court of Great Britain, etc.
"It having been represented to me by a respectable citizen of
the U.
S. A., that the following family of Brabant, lately residents at
Antwerp, but now residing at Amsterdam, to wit: Mr. Stier
d'Artzelear, his wife and daughter, Mr. Charles Stier and his
wife,
Mr. Jean M. A. van Havre and his wife and daughter, have
chartered
the American ship "Adriana," Captain Fitzpatric, of
Philadelphia,
proposing to embark for the United States.
"I do, therefore, hereby request all persons whom these present
may
concern to permit the aforementioned family to pass unmolested
to
the place of their destination.
"Given under my hand and seal, this ninth day of August in the
year
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
(Signed) "THOMAS
PINKNEY."
Mr. Stier arrived at Philadelphia about October, 1794, and
proceeded
to Annapolis
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about December, 1795, Annapolis at this time being one of the most
favored resorts in America.
Mr. Stier started building the Riversdale mansion about 1802. He
was
attracted to the site where he established his home by the
resemblance to the level-lying land to that of his native
country
about Antwerp, the general plan being originally Flemish, after
his
home in Belgium, which is still retained by his descendants. The
house is constructed of brick, which were made on the place,
covered
with a cement plaster and painted yellow after the colonial
style.
The porticoes on the north and south sides, with their sandstone
pillars which were meant for the Capitol in Washington and found
too
short for that use, and the wings, were added by George Calvert
and
are a departure from the original style of the house, converting
the
Flemish plan into the Georgian Colonial.
George Calvert, the grandson of a lord, young and handsome, with
his
bride moved to Riversdale about 1802, soon after it was
completed,
and when Mr. Stier returned to Belgium after the evacuation of
that
country by Napoleon, he deeded Riversdale to his beloved
daughter,
Rosalie, afterward settling on her one-third of his fortune,
which
amounted to over a million dollars.
Two portraits by Gilbert Stuart, show the beauty of the wife,
the
proud elegance of the husband. The great artist has lavished his
genius upon the portrait of Rosalie Eugenia Stier Calvert, and
it is
considered one of the finest of Stuart's works, being a living
likeness of womanly beauty, gentleness and grace.
George Calvert d--at Riversdale, Jan. 28, 1838. His wife
preceding
him by a number of years. Mrs. Calvert d--1821.
George and Rosalie Eugenia (Stier) Calvert of Riversdale, had
issue:
(1) Caroline Maria Calvert, b--July 15, 1800, d--March 25, 1842,
m--June 19, 1823, Thomas Willing Morris of Philadelphia, b--Oct.
23,
1792, d--July 15, 1800, only son of Luke and Anne (Willing)
Morris.
They had eight ch--of whom Anna Maria Morris m--Captain Francis
Key
Murray, U.S.N., and George Calvert Morris, m--Eliz. Kuhn; (2)
George
Henry Calvert, b--Jan. 2, 1803, distinguished author, d--May 24,
1889, m--May 8, 1829, Eliz. Stewart. No issue; (3) Marie Louise
Calvert, b--1804, d--1809; (4) Rosalie Eugenia Calvert, b--Oct.
19,
1806, d--May 6, 1845, m--Nov. 11, 1830, Charles Henry Carter;
(5)
Charles Benedict Calvert--of whom below; (6) Henry Joseph A.
Calvert, b--1811, d--1820; (7) Marie Louise Calvert, b--1812,
d--1813; (8) Julia Calvert, b--Jan. 31, 1814, d--June 8, 1888,
m--May 7, 1833, Dr. Richard Henry Stuart. (9) Amelia Isabella
Calvert, b--1817, d--1820.
Charles Benedict Calvert, the fifth of the above nine
ch--b--Prince
George's Co., Md., Aug. 23, 1808, d--there May 12, 1864; m--June
6,
1839, Charlotte Augusta Norris (d--Dec. 7, 1876), dau--of
William
and Sarah (Martin) Norris. Issue, six ch--: (1) Ella Calvert,
b--March 20, 1840, d--Feb. 17, 1902, m--September 3, 1861,
Duncan G.
Campbell; (2) George Henry Calvert, b--Nov. 29, 1841, m--Dec.
26,
1872, Frances Seybolt; (3) Charles Baltimore Calvert b--at
Riversdale, Feb. 5, 1843, d--at his home "Mac Alpine," Aug. 31,
1906. He was a member of the Maryland Legislature, 1864-6-7;
Trustee
of the State Agricultural College. M--June 14, 1866, Eleanor
Mackubin, dau--of Dr. Richard Creagh and Hester Ann
(Worthington)
Muckubin of Anne Arundel Co., Md. Issue, nine ch--: (1) Eleanor
Gibson Calvert, b--1867, d--............, m--June 8, 1892, W.
Gibson
Carey of Baltimore, who d--............. They had two ch--1,
Charles
Baltimore Calvert Carey, 2. W. Gibson Carey, Jr. (2) Hester
Virginia
Calvert, b--1869, m--Dr. Henry Walter Lilly of Fayetteville, N.
C.
(3) Charlotte Augusta Calvert, b--1870, m-Thomas Humphreys
Spence.
Issue 3 daus. (4) Charles Benedict Calvert, b--1871, d--1872.
(5)
Richard Creagh Mackubin Calvert, b--Dec. 31, 1872, m--Zoe A.
Davis.
(6) George Henry Calvert, Jr., b--Oct. 2, 1874, m--Cornelia R.
Knight. Issue 1. Margaret Peyton Calvert, m--Lt. D. Collett; 2.
Eleanor Calvert, now Mrs. Vincent Carr Tompkins; son b--1937,
Vincent Carr Tompkins, Jr. (7) Rosalie Eugenia Stier Calvert,
b--1876, m--George Calvert. (8) Charles Baltimore Calvert, Jr.,
b--Oct. 9, 1878, m--Mary McAtee of Va. (9) Eliz. Stewart
Calvert,
b--Feb. 1, 1882, m--June 5, 1906, William Douglas Nelson Thomas.
Issue, five ch--: 1. Eliz. Stewart Thomas, b--July 21, 1907,
m--Oct.
3, 1928, Walter R. Byrd of Va., issue: 1. Elisabeth Stewart
Thomas
Byrd; 2. Eleanor Mackubin Calvert Byrd; 2. William Douglas
Nelson
Thomas, Jr., b--Nov. 25, 1910; 3. Thomas Rowland Thomas,
b--April
29, 1913; 4. Amelia Bowie Thomas, b--June 20, 1914; 5. Calvert
Thomas, b--Nov. 1, 1916. (4) William Norris Calvert, fourth son
of
Charles Benedict and Charlotte (Norris) Calvert, b--at
Riversdale,
Oct. 12, 1845, d--Sept. 7, 1889, m--June 14, 1887, by James
Cardinal
Gibbons, Laura Matilda Hunt, dau--of Thomas James and Bedelia
Agnes
(Drew) Hunt. William N. Calvert was a graduate of the Maryland
Agricultural College; he moved to Baltimore and established a
commission business known as William N. Calvert & Co., Flour,
Grain,
Tobacco and General Commission
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