In view of the recent round of discussions concerning Benedict Swingate
Calvert and (?) Benedict Calvert of Mr. Airy, the following by John
Bailey Calvert Nicklin, under the title, "The Calvert Family," may be of
interest to some Calvert researchers:
"The task confronting anyone who tries to compile a genealogy of this
distinguished family, whose history for a century and a half was that of
Maryland, is almost forbidding, for doubt and mystery, tradition and
myth, have concealed the facts and the truth of their lineage and
history. And the legitimate male descendants of Governor the Honourable
Leonard Calvert (1606-1647) have been ignored, while the descendants of
Benedict Swingate (otherwise Calvert of 'Mt. Airy') have received the
attention of historians and genealogists, having produced many noted men
and women."
(from vol. I of Maryland Genealogies, p. 133.)