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Rosalie Eugenia Mistress of Riverdale Calvert (Stier) (16 Feb 1778 - certain 13 Mar 1821)
1 de fev. de 1992 · Rosalie Stier Calvert gives us a first hand account of the life of a wealthy emigrant to the newly established United States. She gives a detailed account of her day to day life as the wife and mother on a plantation as well as important history happening in her backyard.
- Margaret Law Callcott
Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband George. The number of slaves employed at Riversdale varied from around fifteen in 1800 to thirty-two, as reported in the 1806 tax assessment.
1 de fev. de 1992 · In 1803 Rosalie [Calvert] began a remarkable correspondence home to her family that continued until her death in 1821. Those extraordinary letters in French, discovered in the family archives in Belgium in the 1970's, triggered the ongoing restoration of the rundown [Riversdale] mansion and in an equally remarkable chronological narrative of the translated letters resulting in a Johns Hopkins ...
In 1794 Henri Stier and his family, including sixteen-year-old Rosalie, fled their home in Antwerp to escape France's advancing army. They only planned to stay in America until it was safe to return home. However, the fighting dragged on, so the Stiers settled into life in a new country and culture. The vivacious Rosalie married George Calvert ...
1 de mar. de 1991 · Rosalie Stier, daughter of a Belgian mercantile family and wife to George Calvert, became mistress of Riversdale, a Maryland plantation near Washington, in 1802. She and her planter husband, a son of Maryland's first family, were prominent in Washington society.
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- Professor Margaret Law Callcott
Known as the “Mistress of Riversdale,” Rosalie Stier Calvert witnessed the Battle of Bladensburg. Citizen Soldiers During the War of 1812, local citizen soldiers—called militia—were primarily in charge of defending the Chesapeake Bay region.
