Colonel William Calvert, Esq

1643 - 1682  (38 years)

• Name	William Calvert  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Title	Colonel
  Suffix	Esq
  Birth	4 Jul 1643	Battle, Sussex, England   [2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Bef 1664	Maryland, USA   [3]
  	Colonial Maryland: from " Lord Mayor's Court of London: Depositions Relating to Americans, 1641-1736"
  Elected	Maryland, USA   [4]
  	Deputy Governor of Colonial Maryland
  Military Service	1679	St Mary's County, Maryland, USA   [4]
  	British American Army - Colonel, Commander of Foot
  Death	13 May 1682	Charles County, Maryland, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  	Cause: Accidental Drowning
  Person ID	I22151	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Governor Leonard Calvert,   b. 1606, England d. 9 Jun 1647, St Marys, St Mary's, Maryland, USA (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne Brent,   b. 1608, England d. 1646, St Mary's County, Maryland, USA (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 Dec 1641	Gloucestershire, England   [5]
  Family ID	F8456	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Stone,   b. 23 Aug 1643, Baltimore, Maryland, USA d. 1707, Maryland, USA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1664  [2, 6]
  Children	1. George Calvert, I,   b. 14 Dec 1668, Maryland, USA d. 23 Aug 1740, Stafford County, Virginia, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F8616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Jul 1643 - Battle, Sussex, England Immigration - Colonial Maryland: from " Lord Mayor's Court of London: Depositions Relating to Americans, 1641-1736" - Bef 1664 - Maryland, USA Elected - Deputy Governor of Colonial Maryland - - Maryland, USA Military Service - British American Army - Colonel, Commander of Foot - 1679 - St Mary's County, Maryland, USA Death - Cause: Accidental Drowning - 13 May 1682 - Charles County, Maryland, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-CALVERT Calvert Coat of Arms

  
  

  Biographies and Histories

  Bio-CALVERT William William Calvert, Esq

  
  

• Sources

  [S1076] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Deaths, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2001;). [S384] Ancestry.com, Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2016;). Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [S582] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), Place: Maryland; Page Number: 29. [S6605] Smith, Julie Campbell, Find a Grave - Ancestor (Campbell): CALVERT William, (Name: SmithLC.com;), CALVERT William Esq 1643-1682. On May 26th, 1682, he drowned from a boat that capsized in the swollen floodwaters of the Wicomico River. His body recovered and returned to Calvert's Rest for burial beside his parents. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Catholic. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: second generation provincial officeholder; Esq. on arrival; received extensive preferment as a member of the proprietary family. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: placeman; planter. MILITARY SERVICE: colonel, by 1679; commander of foot, St. Mary's County, 1681. LOCAL OFFICES, alderman, St. Mary's City, 1668-1671. PROVINCIAL OFFICES: attorney general, 1666-1669; secretary and judge of Probate, 1669-1670, 1673/74-1682; Council, 1669-1682; justice, Provincial Court, 1669-1682. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, St. Mary's County, 1663-1664, 1666; Upper House, special writ 1669 (Aggrievances), 1671-1674/75, 1676- 1682 (died during the 4th session). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190962630/william_calvert [S297] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Marriages, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2001;). [S6351] Smith, Julie Campbell, Find a Grave - Ancestor (Campbell): STONE Elizabeth Calvert, (Name: SmithLC.com;), STONE Elizabeth Calvert 1643-1707. Elizabeth Stone and William Calvert married 1664 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190962698/elizabeth_calvert