Hon. Phillip Calvert (c. 1626 - c. December 22, 1682), also known as Hon. Philip Calvert, was the fifth

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during a brief period in 1660 or 1661. He was appointed by the royally chartered proprietor of Maryland,

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715), inherited the colony of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, (1605–1675). He had been his father's Deputy Governor sin ...

(1637–1715), as a caretaker to replace Lt. Gen Josias Fendall (1628–1682), the fifth/sixth? provincial

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Life

Calvert came to Maryland on the first expedition under first colonial governor

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(1606–1647), younger brother of the second Lord Baltimore

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675), also often known as Cecilius Calvert, was an English nobleman, who was the first Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, ninth Proprietary Governor of the Colony of Newfou ...

(1605–1675). In 1656, he was made secretary of the Province and one of its Councillors. After the treason and overthrow of Governor Fendall, Calvert became governor in 1660, and displayed clemency in pardoning Fendall. In 1661, Capt. Charles Calvert (1688–1734), illegitimate son of the

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, was made Governor, and Philip was appointed Deputy-Lieutenant and Councillor of the Province. After this, he negotiated a treaty with the Dutch in which they agreed to abandon the disputed territory on the

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. He was one of a committee which negotiated a treaty with the Indians, and of another commission which settled with the Virginia authorities a boundary line between Maryland and Virginia along the south shore of the

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Family

He was son of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore (1579–1632), and his second wife, Joane. Calvert was married to Anne Wolsely Calvert. She died in 1680. He remarried to Jane Sewell Calvert, the step-daughter of his nephew

. In 1682, Jane gave birth to a child of unknown name and gender. Philip Calvert and the infant both died in 1682. In 1990, the bodies of Phillip Calvert, Anne Wolsely Calvert, and the infant were found in lead coffins in a brick vault located in the ruins of a brick chapel in the "Chapel Field" in St. Mary's City, Maryland, the former colonial capital. Examination of these remains provided scientists and historians with significant insight regarding life in 17th century Maryland. DNA analysis in 2016 showed the male adult and the infant have a father-son relationship, verifying the infant as a child of Phillip Calvert. The baby is assessed to have died about three months after his father, in the spring of 1683, judging by the pine and oak pollen in the coffin.

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Calvert Family Tree
(accessed 10 Jul 2013) 1626 births 1682 deaths 17th-century American people Colonial Governors of Maryland Phillip Calvert Younger sons of barons {{Maryland-politician-stub

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