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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 ...
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.
6The Calvert family of Riversdale plantation in Prince George’s County, Maryland, exemplify the great planters of the early national Chesapeake. George Calvert, born in 1768, was the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert (c.1724-1788), the illegitimate but well-provided-for son of Charles Calvert, the fifth Lord Baltimore.
Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband, George Calvert, the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who was a natural son of The 5th Baron Baltimore.
The Calverts were members of a small elite of large planters whose land-holdings were at least 2,000 acres in size, and thus large enough to sup-port the labor of 50 slaves or more. Out of 1,712 free heads of household in Prince George’s County in 1800, only 15 owned this much land.
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.
allel. When the Virginia planters protested vehemently against such a grant, Charles I decided to give Baltimore a territory in northern Virginia near Chesapeake Bay to be called, in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, Maryland. Before a patent could be issued, however, George Calvert died and it was his son Cecilius who received, on
