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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Benedict Swingate Calvert, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Josias Fendall, George H. Steuart, William Claiborne, Cheney Clow, Thomas Cresap, Margaret Brent, Thomas Brooke, Jr., William Steuart, Henry Darnall, Thomas Sim Lee, Andrew White, Robert Brooke, Sr., Thomas Contee, George Mason III, Charles Ridgely II, Daniel Greathouse, James Craik, John Hesselius, Gustavus Richard Brown, Christopher Gist, Thomas Brooke, Sr., Charles Carroll of Annapolis, Colonial families of Maryland, Jacob Lumbrozo, Judith Catchpole, Henry Harford, Philip Darnall, William Stone, Arthur Storer, Ferdinand Poulton, George Mercer, John Francis Mercer, Francis Makemie, Horatio Sharpe, Thomas Cornwallis, Philip Lee, Sr., William Byrd III, James Neale, Michael Cresap, Edmund Plowden, Robert Ellyson, Thomas Sprigg Wootton, Witham Marshe. Excerpt: Benedict Swingate Calvert (ca. 1730-1732 - January 9, 1788) was a Maryland Loyalist during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699-1751), and may have been the grandson of King George I of Great Britain. His mother's identity is not known, though one source suggests Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham. As he was illegitimate, he was not able to inherit his father's title or estates, which passed instead to his half brother Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-1771). Benedict Calvert spent most of his life as a politician and planter in Maryland, though Frederick, by contrast, never visited the colony. Calvert became wealthy through proprietarial patronage and became an important colonial official, but he would lose his offices and his political power, though not his land and wealth, during the American Revolution. Calvert was born Benedict Swinket in England in around 1730-32, the illegitimate...
