Person:William Calvert (22)

    The parents of William are currently unknown.  His birthplace is also unknown.  It is currently unknown whether he served in the Revolutionary War. Although Ella Foy O'Gorman implies that he served in the Revolutionary War, she does not actually so state. She simply states that "a William Calvert" served in Philip Maroney's Flying Camp.  An exhaustive search of Revolutionary War service and pension records by Robert Fillerup has so far failed to turn up any record of William's service.  Likewise, there is no known record or family statement that William served which predates O'Gorman's book.
    Although Maroney's Flying Camp was largely recruited from Montgomery County, Maryland, members also came from Virginia and Pennsylvania. The list of members of the Flying Camp simply gives names without any indication of residence.  Whether the William Calvert listed is the subject William Calvert cannot be positively determined.
    The first definite record of William is his marriage to Elizabeth Nodding in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1780.  William is listed as "William Kelvart" in the original record. The marriage was performed by Rev. Joseph Threlkeld, most likely at Cabin John, Montgomery County, where the Rev. Threlkeld resided at the time.  Cabin John was across the Potomack River and downstream just a few miles from the land farmed by Elizabeth's father William Nodding in Loudoun County, Virginia.
    William Calvert and his wife Elizabeth migrated in about 1780 with the Noddings, the Baylesses, the Browns, and other relatives to Washington County, which was at the time part of North Carolina, and then the short-lived State of Franklin, and finally Tennessee.  A William Calvert appears as a plaintiff in a Washington County court record in 1782 in a suit against James Foard [Ford].  William is listed as "heir at law of John Calvert."  No other details of the suit are given in the manuscript record, other than the names of the jurors and the amount of the judgment.  If this is the subject William, then it could suggest that he was the sole surviving child of his father named John.
    William, Elizabeth and family remained in Washington County, Tennessee, until sometime around 1810 when they moved to what was then Howard County and soon to become Cooper County, Missouri.  There was apparently a large wagon company, for numerous related families show up in Missouri at the same time period.
     Little else is known about William's life.  He died in Cooper County and was apparently buried in the Gooch Mill cemetery.

(Research):Robert Fillerup: I have notes in my files ( two different versions) written in the handwriting of my grandmother, Maude Davis Hitchings Liaunais, which states: "William Calvert, great-grandfather, born in England in 1642 and died in Maryland 10 Jan 1682." She told me (tape recorded interview) that she copied this out of the "old family Bible" that belonged to her mother Lizzie Cheatham Davis. She did not remember when the notes were written, but stated to me in 1970 that it was "a long time ago." If this is referring to the great-grandfather of William Calvert (1757), then it refers to William Calvert b. 1642 and d. 1682 who was the progenitor of the Deep Hole farm Calverts.

1. ↑ Ella Foy O'Gorman. Descendants of Virginia Calverts. (Los Angeles, E. F. O'Gorman, 1947)
   p. 661.
2. ↑ Martha Shipley Barnett (William Wade Shipley's Sister). Calvert Letter.
3. ↑ The John Calvert Family Bible. (<www.rootsweb.com/~mocooper/Bibles.>).
4. ↑ Cooper County, Missouri, Deed Book Vol. D
   p. 472.
5. ↑ Martha Shipley Barnett (William Wade Shipley's Sister). Calvert Letter.
6. ↑ Ella Foy O'Gorman. Descendants of Virginia Calverts. (Los Angeles, E. F. O'Gorman, 1947)
   p. 661.
7. ↑ The John Calvert Family Bible. (<www.rootsweb.com/~mocooper/Bibles.>).
8.   Ella Foy O'Gorman. Descendants of Virginia Calverts. (Los Angeles, E. F. O'Gorman, 1947)
   pp. 661-662.
9.   Joyce Kroninger. Gedcom file (2). (March 2008).
10.   Kroninger, Joyce Mills. Gedcom. (March 2008.).
11. ↑ Gooch Mill, also known as Big Lick Cemetery