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21 de nov. de 2020 · Before his marriage to Mary Janssen, Charles, 5th Lord Baltimore, was father of a son called Benedict Swingate. This boy was sent to Maryland about 1742, married, in 1748, Elizabeth Calvert, dau. of Gov. Charles Calvert, and assumed the name of Calvert, becoming head of the family who lived at Mt Airy. ["Heritage of faith"]
7 de jul. de 2023 · Calvert family papers in my possession identify Amelia as Benedict Swingate Calvert's mother through Charles Calvert (1699-1751), 5th Lord Baltimore. Because he was the great-grandson of King Charles II, Charles was a distant cousin to the royal family and became a close friend of Frederick, Prince of Wales, Amelia's brother.
26 de abr. de 2022 · Benedict Swingate Calvert was the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland, and a wealthy planter. They had thirteen children. Elizabeth's husband Benedict Calvert inherited a 4,000-acre (16 km2) plantation known as Mount Airy,[11] near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he grew tobacco.[12]
Calvert's father, Benedict Swingate Calvert. 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. Riversdale
Benedict Swingate CALVERT was born on January 27, 1722 in Westminster, Middlesex, son of Charles CALVERT and Petronilla Melusina von der SCHULENBURG. He was married in the year 1748 in St Ann's Church, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Verenigde Staten to Elizabeth CALVERT, they had 4 children.
Charles also had an illegitimate son, Benedict Swingate Calvert, born in around 1730–32. His mother's identity is not clear but H. S. Lee Washington, writing in the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register in July 1950, suggests that she was Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham.
In 1742 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751) sent his eldest but illegitimate son, Benedict Swingate Calvert, then aged around ten years old, to Annapolis and placed him in Steuart's care. Steuart evidently benefited from the Calvert family's patronage, as he later was appointed to a number of important Colonial offices.
