Interesting information:
"A Chesapeake family and their slaves, A study in historical archaeology. Ann
Elizabeth Yentsch, Cambridge University Press, p 12 "...The Young firth Lord
Baltimore (initially through his guardian, Lord Guilford) first moved to re-assert the
proprietor's authority in the province by sending his "cousin" Captain
Charles CALVERT, and then his own brother, Benedict Leonard CALVERT, to Maryland to
govern. When Benedict Leonard encountered opposition if not treachery, within family
circles, Lord Baltimore sent a second brother Edward..." p23"..His cousin, the
Captain, further invested in slave holdings and at his death thirty-one slaves were
attached to the urban household while twenty-four more lived on rural farms. No other
wealthy town household kept as many domestic servants..."
p 14 "...Edward Henry CALVERT, the youngest brother to come to Annapolis, died too
young-at age 29-and too soon-fifteen months after his arrival-to become an active force in
Maryland society or in its political structure (chart 1.1). Edward Henry CALVERT would be
a minor actor in the social drama that created the archaeological record of the CALVERT
Site were it not that, as a young married aristocrat, he was head of a household whose
material expectations were formed by intimate knowledge of and enculturation in the norms
of the English country gentry. The things he and his young wife, his cousin Margaret LEE,
brought or bought were the objects English gentry believed to be necessities....she was
also the great-granddaughter of a Stuart King in a town where Scotsmen constituted a
significant, forceful. upwardly mobile sector of the population..."
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