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Persoonlijke gegevens George CALVERT 

• Hij is geboren op 2 februari 1768 in Mount Airy, Prince George's Co., Maryland.
• Hij is overleden op 28 januari 1838 in Riverdale Park, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Benedict Swingate CALVERT en Elizabeth CALVERT

Gezin van George CALVERT

Hij is getrouwd met Rosalie STIER.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 juni 1799, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Rosalie Eugenia CALVERT  1806-1845
2. Caroline Maria CALVERT  1800-1842
3. George Henry CALVERT  1803-1889
4. Julia CALVERT  1814-1889
5. Charles Benedict CALVERT  1808-1864 

Notities over George CALVERT

George Calvert (February 2, 1768 - January 28, 1838), was a plantation owner in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century Maryland. His plantation house, Riversdale plantation, also known as the Calvert Mansion, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. Calvert's wife, the Belgian-born heiress Rosalie Stier Calvert, was an indefatigable correspondent whose letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991. The letters range in date from 1795 to 1821, and illuminate the life of the Calverts' plantation household during the events leading up to and during the War of 1812.

George Calvert was born at his father's plantation home of Mount Airy, Maryland, on February 2, 1768, the youngest son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was himself the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the penultimate Lord Proprietor of the Province of Maryland.

George Calvert lived at the Riversdale plantation, also known as the Calvert Mansion, a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807. Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997.

Once the manor house and centerpiece of a 739-acre plantation, Riversdale was built for Belgian émigré Henri Joseph Stier, Baron de Stier, who lived in the Brice House in Annapolis, Maryland immediately prior to building Riversdale. Stier planned the house in 1801 to resemble his Belgian residence, the Chateau du Mick. Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband George.

Family life
George and Rosalie Calvert were married on June 11, 1799. His wife was an indefatigable correspondent and a collection of her letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, were published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991, edited by Margaret Law Callcott. The letters range in date from 1795 to 1821, and illuminate the life of Stier's plantation household during the events leading up to and during the War of 1812.

The couple had a large family. Their son Charles Benedict Calvert established the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, College Park, on part of the Riversdale property. Another son, George Henry Calvert (January 2, 1803 - May 24, 1889) was a noted editor, essayist, dramatist, poet, and biographer.

Caroline Maria Calvert (July 15, 1800 - November 25, 1842), married on June 19, 1823 Thomas Willing Morris of Philadelphia.
George Henry Calvert (1803-1889), essayist, dramatist, poet, and biographer.
Marie Louise Calvert (1804-1809), died in childhood.
Rosalie Eugenia Calvert, of Goodwood, Maryland (Riversdale, Bladensburg, Maryland, October 19, 1806 - Goodwood, May 6, 1845), married in Philadelphia on November 11, 1830 Charles Henry Carter (England, January 29, 1804 - July 5, 1892).
Charles Benedict Calvert (1808-1864), was a U.S. Congressman who founded what is now the University of Maryland, College Park, chartered in 1856.
Henry Joseph Albert Calvert (1810-1820)
Marie Louise Calvert (1812-1813), died in infancy.
Julia Calvert, of Cedar Grove, Virginia (Riversdale, Bladensburg, January 31, 1814 - Cedar Grove, June 8, 1888), married in Riversdale on May 7, 1833 Richard Henry Stuart (Pop's Creek, May 31, 1808 - Cedar Grove, May 14, 1889).
Amelia Isabella Calvert (1817-1820), died in infancy.

Rosalie herself died on March 13, 1821, according to her physician, "of a general dropsy affecting the whole system", at the relatively young age of 43.

Politics
In 1816 Calvert was approached by Maryland Federalists who asked him to run as the Federalist candidate for Governor of Maryland. Calvert came from a long line of politicians; his ancestors had ruled the Province of Maryland. However, pressed by his wife Rosalie to avoid politics, he was persuaded to devote his energies instead to the economic well-being of his family. However, it seems he may have missed an opportunity, as the Federalist candidate chosen in his place, Charles Carnan Ridgely was duly elected that year.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Calvert_(planter)

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