Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Charles (5th Lord Baltimore) Calvert

Male 1699 - 1751  (51 years)


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  • Name Charles (5th Lord Baltimore) Calvert 
    Birth 29 Sep 1699  Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Apr 1751  St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I34598  Tree1
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

    Father Benedict Leonard (4th Lord Baltimore) Calvert,   b. 21 Mar 1679, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1715, Epsom, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Charlotte (Lady) Lee,   b. 13 Mar 1677, St James Square, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jan 1721, Woodford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 2 Jun 1698  Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F18020  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Melusina DeSchulenberg,   b. Abt 1700, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1727, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 27 years) 
    Children 
     1. Benedict Swingate Calvert,   b. 1724, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1788, Mt. Airy, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F20867  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

    Family 2 Mary Jansen,   b. Abt 1699, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1748, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Marriage 20 Jul 1730  St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Louisa Calvert,   b. 1732, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Nov 1821, Horton Lodge, Epsom Parish, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)  [Father: natural]
     2. Frederick (6th Lord Baltimore) Calvert,   b. 6 Feb 1733, Epsom, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1771, Naples, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)  [Father: natural]
     3. Frances Dorothy Calvert,   b. 1734, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1736, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)  [Father: natural]
     4. Charles Calvert,   b. 21 Jan 1737, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     5. Caroline Calvert,   b. Abt 1741, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County. Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1803, Bath Abbey, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 62 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F22317  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Wikipedia

      Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, FRS (September 29, 1699 – April 24, 1751) was a British noble and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland.

      Charles was 16 when his father, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore died, passing on his title. Shortly after his father's death, the title to Maryland was restored to the Calvert family who had lost it following the Glorious Revolution.[citation needed]

      As an adult he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a friend of fourth-cousin[1] Frederick Louis who was Prince of Wales and the eldest son of King George II of England.

      In 1732, under Governor Samuel Ogle, Maryland was engaged in a border dispute with Pennsylvania.[2] Several settlers were taken prisoners on both sides and Penn sent a committee to Governor Ogle to resolve the situation.[2] Rioting broke out in the disputed territory and Ogle appealed to the King for resolution.[2]

      Faced with this situation, Charles arrived in Maryland and assumed charge of the colony in 1732.[2] Charles unwittingly agreed to a settlement based on an inaccurate map causing him to renege on the agreement. Charles's error ultimately resulted in the loss to the territory of approximately one thousand square miles.[citation needed]

      On July 20, 1730 Charles married Mary Janson, the daughter of Theodore Janson and Williamza Henley. Charles and Mary had three children: Frederick Calvert who succeeded his father to become the 6th and final Lord Baltimore, Louisa Calvert, and Caroline Calvert (who married Robert Eden). Charles was also survived by an illegitimate son, Benedict Swingate Calvert who married Elizabeth, daughter of Maryland Governor Captain Charles Calvert Butler and his wife Rebecca Gerard and granddaughter of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. Benedict Swingate Calvert was the father of Eleanor Calvert the wife of John Parke Custis; they were the parents of George Washington Parke Custis and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis. Eleanor Parke Custis married Lawrence Lewis-a son of Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington a sister of George Washington; George Washington was the stepfather of John Parke Custis.
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      CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE, Kingdom of Ireland. 17 Nov, 1750
      To all and singular the Faithful in Christ. To whom these our present letters testimonial shall come or whom the matters herein written do or may hereafter in anywise concern Thomas, by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan send greetings in our Lord God everlasting and will that undoubted faith be given to these presents. Do make known and will that it be hereby made known to you that on searching the Registry of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the Archives, thereof, there well and faithfully preserved and kept, we have discovered and plainly found amongst other things in the same, that on the 30th of April, 1751, at London, before the Worshipful Andrew Coltee, Bucharel Doctor of Laws Surrogate to the Right Worshipful, John Bettesworth, Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper on Commissary of our own Prerogative Court of Cantebury, lawfully constituted the last will and testament, with a codicil annexed, of the Right Hon. Charles Lord Baltimore of the Kingdom of Ireland, dec'd., having whilst living and at the time of his death, goods, chattles or credits in divers dioceses or jurisdictions sufficient to found the jurisdiction of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, afsd., was proved, approved and registered and administration of all and singular the goods, chattles and credits of the sd. dec'd., and any ways concerning his will was granted to Samuel Farrant, John Sharpe, Esquire and Thomas Bladen, Esquire, 3 of the exs. named in sd. will, being
      sworn to faithfully administer the same, and to make a true inventory of sd. goods, chattles and credits, and to exhibit same into the Registry of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury on or before the last day of October next ensuing, and also to render a just and true account thereof; power reserved of making the like grant to Samuel Ogle, Esquire, the other ex. named in sd. will, when he shall apply for same, the true tenor of which sd. will and codicil follows in these words:
      Last will of Charles, Lord Baltimore of The Kingdom of Ireland, made November 17th, 1750, that is to say:
      To Thomas Bladen of the Parish of St. James, Westminister, in county of Middlesex, Esquire, Samuel Ogle, Esquire, now Governor of Maryland, John Sharpe of St. Andrew Holborn in county of Middlesex, Esquire, and Samuel Farrat of Tower, Thomas Street, London, gentlemen and their hrs., all my mannors, messuages, farms, lands, tenements and meriditaments, whatsoever in the Kingdom of Great Britan, and also my Province of Maryland in America, and all other of my real estates in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Province of Maryland and Avalon afsd.„ except such pts. thereof as are hereinafter otherwise given or disposed of, to the several uses and upon the trusts and to and for the ends intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned and expressed, that is to say:
      To the use of my only son Frederick Calvert and his assigns, during his natural life, without impeachment of waste and from and after the determination of that estate to the use of sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe and Samuel Farrant and their hrs., during the life of sd. son, upon trust to preserve the contingent uses hereinafter limited, from being defeated and destroyed, and for that purpose to make entries and bring actions as occasion shall require, but nevertheless to permit, and suffer sd. son and asigns, during life to receive and take the rents, issues and profits thereof to and for his and their own use and benefit, and from and after the decease of sd. son, to use of the first, second, third and all and every other the son and sons of the body of sd. son, lawfully to be begotten, severally, successively and in remainder one after another as they shall be in priority of birth and seniority of age, and of the several and respective hrs. male of the several and respective body and bodies of all and every such son and sons, lawfully issuing, every elder of such sons and the hrs., male of his body issuing, being always preferred and to take before the younger of such sons and the hrs. male of him, and in default of such issue, to the use of all and every the dau. and daus. of sd. son, equally to be divided bet. them, share alike; such daus. to take as tenants in common and not as joint tenants, and if one or more daus. die without issue, then for default of such issue, respectively the pt. or share of her or them, so dying shall go and remain to the use of the other and others equally to be divided, and if all such daus. but one shall die without issue, or if there shd. happen to be but one such dau., then to the use of such surviving or only dau. and hrs. of her body, and in default of such issue, then to the use and behalf of Louisa, my eld. dau., her hrs. and asigns, subject nevertheless to the sum of 20,000 pounds for Caroline, young. dau. (over and above the 5,000 pounds provided for her by my marriage settlement), to be paid to her at age 21 or day of marriage.
      To son Benjamin Calvert, Esq., all that my manor of Anne Arundel in the county of Anne Arundel, Maryland, with all and every the rights royalties, members and appurtenances.
      To sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe, John Browning of Somerset House Stable Yard, gentlemen, and Samuel Farrant and their hrs., all my manors, messuages, farms, land tenements and heriditaments, lying and being in the Kingdom of Ireland, as hereafter mentioned; that sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe, John Browning and Samuel Farrant, the survivor of them and hrs., shall permit Mrs. Cecil Brassan. of Somerset House Stable Yard, afsd., to have, take and receive the annual income and proceeds of sd. estate, and for her own maintenance, for her two sons until they are of age, and when that happens, I will and devise the sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharp, John Browning and Samuel Farrant by sale or mortage of sd. estate, raise as much money as they shall think prudent for that purpose, and in case her sons live to age 21, and in case they are to be engaged in or pursue that business or occupation that they shall be placed out to any other, then I will and impower sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe, John Browning and Samuel Farrant - desire them to mortgage of the sd. estates as much money as will make up the sum first advanced and paid with them at their placing out in the world, the sum of 4,000 pounds, which is to be equally shared amongst them, and bequeath the same to Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe, John Browning and Samuel Tarrant, in trust, to permit the sd. Mrs. Cecil Bressan (?) to receive the interest, produce and profit thereof during her life, and at her decease, in trust for Charles and Augustus Bressan (7), her sd. two sons as tenants in common, my lands and etc. lying at Leaden (?) or elsewhere in the Parish of Erithe, County of Kent, and my messuage in Argyle Street in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, Middlesex County.
      To permit and suffer Mrs. Jane Newton of sd. Parish of Erithe to take her own use all or any pt. of sd. furniture, plate, china, stock. for her during her natural life., and to her 100 pounds annuity, annually, and payable out of His Majesty's Exchequer, and which I bought in the name of son Frederick Calvert, to be received and enjoyed by her, as the same becomes due.
      To sd. Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, John Sharpe, Samuel Farrant, 1,000 pounds, in trust for Mary Hyde, Jane Hyde, Philip Hyde and Catharine Hyde, four young. children of my sister Jane Hyde, in equal shares and proportions, to be applied in such manner as my trustees shall think proper.
      To Thomas Bladen, John Sharp, John Browning and Samuel Farrant, 500 pounds each in hopes that they will execute the trust and confidence reposed in them by this my will.
      To John Bowers, who now lives with me 500 pounds.
      To each and every of my servants who have no legacy herein before given them, and who shall be living with me at the time of my decease, one year's wages.
      Wits Math. Blackiston, James Soleirol, Mathew Friend.
      Codicil: To sd. 2 daus.: Caroline and Louisa, the sum of 5,000 pounds, each, over and above the 5,000 pounds each secured to them by my marriage settlement, and I desire ex., named in sd. will, to place out the same at interest for their benefit and to pay them, the sd. 5,000 pounds each.
      Wit: Mathew Friend, John Maintru, 19th day of Dec., 1750. Given at London, as to the time of the afsd. search and the sealing of these presents, the 10th May, 1751.
      Wit: Wm. Legard, Pet St. Bay, Hen. Stevens, Deputy Registers. Extracted by Henry Farrant, Proctor in Doctors Commons.
      Seal of the Prerogative Court of The Archbishop of Canterubry. 28. 174

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      1717-1726 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber F, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Folio: 9/636 o Indenture 20 Jul 1717
      From: Francis, Lord Guilford, Guardian to Charles, lord Baltimore, a minor
      To: Henry Darnall, Esq
      For £450 all the tobacco rents and fines for alienations which become due to the said Lord Baltimore within the said province on or before the 29th September last as well as those "standing out" as those received or disposed of by Charles Carroll, Esquire
      /s/ Guilford (seal), Henry Darnall (seal)
      Memorandum: Henry Darnall agrees to accept the bargains and agreements made by Charles Carroll; same signatures
      Wit: Charles Lowe, Robert Choyne [doyne]
      Acknowledgement of payment of £450; witnessed by John Hyde and Sam Hyde
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      1726-1730 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber M, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Page 146
      Enrolled at request of Charles Calvert, Esq., 27 Apr 1727: Indenture, 29 Mar 1727; Between William Beall, Jr., planter and Gov. Charles Calvert; for £17.9; a parcel called Denmark; containing 130 acres; /s/ William Beall, Jr.; wit. Clement Hill, William Digges; 29 Mar 1727 ack. by William Beall and Elizabeth his wife

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