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George Calvert (February 2, 1768 – January 28, 1838), was a plantation owner and slaveholder 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 ...
Download book EPUB. The Tobacco-Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World. Steven Sarson. Part of the book series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World ( (AEMAW)) 92 Accesses. Abstract. As one of the grandees of Prince George’s County, Maryland, George Calvert was expected by his peers to perform public duties.
- Steven Sarson
- 2013
Abstract. In 1816, the English traveler, writer, and diplomat David Baile Warden wrote in his Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia that, The establishment of George Calvert, Esq. attracts attention.
- Steven Sarson
- 2013
George was born in 1768. He was the son of Benedict Calvert and Elizabeth Calvert. He passed away in 1838. 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.
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- February 2, 1768
- Rosalie Eugenia (Stier) Calvert
- January 28, 1838
Calvert obtained his barony in 1624 when he left the service of King James I after failing to secure the Spanish Match and having announced his reconversion to Roman Catholicism. See John D. Krugler, ‘Calvert, George, First Baron Baltimore, (1579/80-1632), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (hereafter ODNB ) (May 2010).
- Helen Kilburn
- 2019
Keywords: Dovecote/Pigeon house; Fountain; Icehouse; Lawn; Parterre; Piazza; Plot/Plat; Portico; Shrubbery. Riversdale was the plantation of the Belgian émigré Rosalie Stier Calvert (1778–1821) and her husband, George Calvert (1768–1838), a planter and direct descendent of the Proprietary Governors of Maryland.
Among the men of England who, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, espoused the cause of colonization and set the cornerstone of empire in the New World. was the Catholic peer, George Calvert, first Baron Baltimore. A member of the Vir- ginia Company from 1609 to 1620 and a member of the Council for New England from 1622, Calvert had ...
