Eleanor Calvert
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Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart was a member of the wealthy American Calvert family of Maryland. She was the wife of politician John Parke Custis who was the son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Custis
Portrait attributed to John Ramage, c. 1780
Benedict Swingate Calvert
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Benedict Swingate Calvert was an American planter, politician, and judge from Maryland who was a Loyalist during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the th
Eleanor Calvert
…in 1758 at the Calvert family's Mount Airy plantation near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland. She was the second-eldest daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and Benedict's wife and first cousin Elizabeth Calvert. She was known to her family as…
Portrait by John Wollaston, 1754
Calvert's father, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by John Wollaston c. 1754.
John Parke Custis, Calvert's son-in-law