Person:Leonard Calvert (2)
Leonard Calvert
b.21 Nov 1610 City of London, Middlesex, England
d.9 Jun 1647 St. Mary's, Maryland
Parents and Siblings
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m. 22 Nov 1604
  1. Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore1605 - 1675
  2. Anne CalvertAbt 1607 - Aft 1672
  3. Dorothy Calvert1608 - 1621/22
  4. Elizabeth Calvert1609 - Abt 1630
  5. Grace Calvert1609/10 - 1672
  6. Leonard Calvert1610 - 1647
  7. Francis CalvertAbt 1612 - Aft 1625/26
  8. George Calvert1613 - Abt 1634
  9. Helen Ellin CalvertAbt 1615 -
  10. Henry Calvert1615/16 - Bef 1635
  11. John CalvertAbt 1618 - 1617/18
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Leonard Calvert1610 - 1647
  • W.  Anne Brent1622 - 1646
  1. Hon. William Calvert1643 - 1682
  2. Anne Calvert1645 - 1714
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Leonard Calvert
Gender Male
Birth[1] 21 Nov 1610 City of London, Middlesex, England
Marriage to Anne Brent
Death? 9 Jun 1647 St. Mary's, Maryland
Reference Number? Q679316?

Leonard Calvert was one of the Early Settlers of Colonial Maryland

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Information on Leonard Calvert

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Leonard Calvert (1606 - June 9, 1647) was the first Governor of the Province of Maryland. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland. His elder brother Cecil, who inherited the colony and the title, appointed Leonard governor in his absence.

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In 1632, he returned to England where he negotiated an additional patent for the colony of Maryland from Charles I of England. However, before the papers could be executed, George died on 15 April, 1632.

On June 20, 1632, Cecil, the second Lord Baltimore executed the charter for the colony of Maryland that his father had negotiated. The charter consisted of 23 sections, but the most important conferred on Lord Baltimore and his heirs, besides the right of absolute ownership in the soil, certain powers, ecclesiastical as well as civil, resembling those possessed by the nobility of the Middle Ages. Leonard Calvert was appointed the colony's first Governor.

Two vessels, the Ark and the Dove, carrying over 300 settlers, sailed from the harbour of Cowes, 22 November, 1633, arriving at Point Comfort at the mouths of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth Rivers, in Virginia, 24 February, 1634. On 27 March they landed at what is now St. Mary's, then the site of a Native American village, and they began the work of establishing a settlement there.

Following his brother's instructions, Leonard at first attempted to govern the country in an absolutist way, but in January 1635 he had to summon a colonial assembly. In 1638 the assembly forced him to govern according to the laws of England, and subsequently the right to initiate legislation passed to the assembly.

In 1638 Calvert seized a trading post in Kent Island established by the Virginian William Claiborne. In 1644 Claiborne led an uprising of Maryland Protestants. In 1643 Governor Calvert went to England to discuss policies with his brother the proprietor, leaving the affairs of the colony in charge of acting Governor Brent, his brother-in-law. Leonard Calvert married Ann Brent, daughter of Richard Brent. Later in 1643, Ann gave birth to a son, William Calvert and in 1644 a daughter. Leonard Calvert returned to Maryland in 1644 with his wife and child, but was soon forced to flee to Virginia. He returned at the head of an armed force in 1646 and reasserted proprietarial rule.

Leonard Calvert died of an illness in the summer of 1647. Before he died, he wrote a will naming Margaret Brent the executor of his estate.

In 1890 the state of Maryland erected an Obelisk monument to him and his wife at St. Mary's.

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More details The Ark And the Dove Adventurers: By the Society of the Ark and the Dove By Society of the Ark and the Dove, George Ely Russell, Donna Valley Russell Published by Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005, pg. 42.

References
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    Birth date: 21 November 1610Birth place: London, Middlesex, England

    http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoolb&h=744325&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

  2.   Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.)
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