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Elizabeth Calvert married her cousin Benedict Swingate Calvert (c.1730-1788), on April 21, 1748, in St Ann’s Church, Annapolis. The couple were married by the Reverend John Gordon. Benedict Swingate Calvert was the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland, and a wealthy planter.
Elizabeth Calvert married her cousin Benedict Swingate Calvert (1722-1788), on April 21, 1748, in St Ann's Church, Annapolis. The couple were married by the Reverend John Gordon. Benedict Swingate Calvert was the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland, and a wealthy
Charles Benedict Calvert (August 23, 1808 – May 12, 1864) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861 to 1863. He was an early backer of the inventors of the telegraph , and in 1856 he founded the Maryland Agricultural College, the first agricultural research college in America, now known as the University of Maryland .
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.
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
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.
