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ALLNUTT, William, was commissioned a judge of the Court of Appeals for Calvert County, Md., 1778. He was born in Calvert County, 1711, and died in Maryland.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution Volume 75 page 294
Mrs. Lily F. Burchell Greiner. DAR ID Number:
74804
BECKETT, Capt. John, was many years a mem. of the legislature of Md., and an officer in the war of 1812; at the battle of York he bore from the field the wounded Pike, and at the capture of Ft. George affair, at Stony Creek and the battle of Crysler's field he acted an honorable part; d. at Locustgrove, Calvert co., Md., May 26, 1850, in the 59th y. of his age. (Stryker's Am. Reg., iv, 464.)
Source: Franklin B. Hough, American Biographical Notes, p.22
BLAKE, Joseph Jr., (1760-1843), was commissioned ensign 1778 of Calvery County militia. He was born and died in Calvert County, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution Volume 43 page 113
Mrs. Mary Roberts Pitcher. DAR ID Number:
42300
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 58 page 33
Mrs. Nina
Roberts Smith. DAR ID Number: 57096
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 73 page 263
Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Edelin. DAR ID Number: 72744
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 79 page 183
Mrs.
Marie L. Bourne Bickers. DAR ID Number: 78496
BLAKE, Thomas Holdsworth, a Representative from Indiana; born in Calvert County, Md., June 14, 1792; attended the public schools; studied law in Washington, D.C.; member of the militia of the District of Columbia which took part in the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814; moved to Kentucky and thence to Indiana; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Terre Haute, Ind.; prosecuting attorney and judge of the circuit court; abandoned the practice of law to engage in business; member of the State house of representatives; elected as an Adams Republican to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; declined to be a candidate for the Twenty-second Congress; was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by President Tyler on May 19, 1842, and served until April 1845; chosen president of the Erie & Wabash Canal Co.; visited England as financial agent of the State of Indiana and, while returning, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 28, 1849; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 Biographies B page 858
BLAKE, Col.. Thomas H.., d. in Cincinnati, O., Nov. 28, 1849, native of Calvert co., Md.; rem. when young to Washington; and on formation of state gov. in Ind., settled at Terre Haute; was many years in the legislature, a judge, dist. atty., and from 1827 to 1829, mem. of cong.; under Pres. Tyler, was com'r of gen. land office, and at the time of his death had recently returned from England as financial agent of the state, and a trustee of the Wabash and Erie canal.
Source: Franklin B. Hough, American Biographical Notes, p.31
BOND, Thomas Holdsworth, born in Calvert County, Md., December 15, 1807; son of John Thomas and Sarah Howe Bond. M.D., Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1830; practiced until his death. He was killed by lightning in the house of his uncle, Dr. James Duke, Calvert County, August 11, 1838.
Source: Eugene F. Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland Baltimore: Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1903, page 326
BRISCOE, Philip, born in Calvert County, Md., October 5, 1855. Educated at Charlotte Hall, St. John's College and Agricultural College; pupil Dr. C.F. Bevan; M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1880; Resident Physician, Bayview Asylum, 1880-81; Vice-President, Maryland Public Health Association, 1897-98; President, Calvert County Medical Society, 1899; practices at Mutual, Md.
Source: Eugene F. Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland Baltimore: Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1903, page 332
BROOME, John, (1726-97) was a member of the Committee of Safety and Observation, of Calvert County, Md., where he was born and died. Azel Warfield (1726-87) was a patriot of Maryland. He was born and died in Anne Arundel County, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 122 page 135
Mrs.
Florence A. Brown Grason. DAR ID Number: 121417
BROOKE, John (1753-90) was captain in Col. Alexander Somervell's regiment, Maryland Line. He was born and died in Calvert County, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 122 page 135
Mrs.
Florence A. Brown Grason. DAR ID Number: 121417
CHEW, Samuel, (1737-90), was a member of the Maryland Convention, 1775; of the Association of Freemen and one of the fifty-seven signers of the original association. He was born in Calvert county, where he died.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 24 page 142
Mrs. Rosa
Chew Williams. DAR ID Number: 23406
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 31 page 275
Mrs. Jane
Benson Chew Clagett. DAR ID Number: 30794
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 93 page 84
Mrs.
Dorothy Chew Mason. DAR ID Number: 92258
CLAGGETT, Thomas John, 1st P.E. bishop of Maryland, and 5th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Prince George's county, Md., Oct. 2, 1742; son of the Rev. Samuel and Elizabeth (Gantt) Claggett; grandson of Capt. Thomas Claggett of Maryland; and great-grandson of Col. Edward Claggett of London, Eng. He attended Lower Marlboro academy and was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1764. He received holy orders at the hands of Dr. Terrick, bishop of London, in 1767.
He was appointed by the governor of Maryland incumbent of All Saints' church, Calvert county, Md., in 1768. When the war for independence began, being a non-juror, he retired to his estate in Prince George's county. In 1780 be became rector of St. Paul's parish, Prince George's county. From 1786 to 1792 he was rector of St. James', Arundel county, when he again assumed charge of St. Paul's, Prince George's county. He was elected bishop of Maryland and consecrated by Bishops Provoost, Seabury, White and Madison in Trinity church, New York city, Sept. 17, 1792. This was the first consecration to the episcopal office in the United States, and united the two lines of the apostolic succession, the Scotch and English. Bishop
Claggett was appointed chaplain to the United States senate in 1800, and in 1808, in addition to his episcopal duties, assumed the rectorship of Trinity church, Upper Marlboro, Md. He received the degree of S.T.D. in 1787 from the College of New Jersey and that of D.D. from Washington college in 1792. He died at Croom, Md., Aug. 2, 1816.
Source: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II - C to Claghorn, Kate Holladay
COE, William, (1757-1834) served as private and corporal in Captain Thomas' company, Colonel Smallwood's regiment, Maryland Line. He was born in Calvert County; died in Baltimore, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 99 page 198
Mrs.
Nannie Thompson Focke. DAR ID Number: 98630
DALLAM, Richard, (1718-1805) was a member of the Committee of Hartford County, 1775, and represented the county in the Convention, 1776. He was born in Calvert County, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 62 page 78
Mrs. Annie
M. Frazee. DAR ID Number: 61220
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 71 page 154
Miss
Edith Ross Wayne. DAR ID Number: 70420
DALRYMPLE, James A, register of wills in Calvert co., Md., and several ys. in the Md. leg.; d. near Prince Frederick, Md., Aug. 18, 1842.
Source: Franklin B. Hough, American Biographical Notes, p.97
DONALDSON, William, born in Calvert County, Md., 1778. A.B., St. John's College, Annapolis, 1798; pupil of Dr. Miles Littlejohn; attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1802-03; Founder of the College of Medicine of Maryland, 1807, and Charter Professor of the Institutes of Medicine; resigned on account of health, 1808; M.D. (Honorary), University of Maryland, 1818; associated in practice with Dr. Miles Littlejohn, and later (1830) with Dr. R.S. Stuart; President, Medical Society of Baltimore, 1822-23. Died January 14, 1835.
Source: Eugene F. Cordell, Medical Annals of Maryland Baltimore: Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1903, pages 379-380
EDMUNDSON, Archibald (1734-87) enlisted 1776 from Calvert County, Md., in Capt. John Brook's company of the Flying Camp. He was born and died in Maryland.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 47 page 260
Mrs. Eliza
F. Pickrell Routt. DAR ID Number: 46572
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 77 page 366
Mrs. Ida
T. Jones Hartzell. DAR ID Number: 76974
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 97 page 312
Mrs.
Bessie Edmonson Bradfield. DAR ID Number: 96999
EGANS, James Edward, In 1844 or 1845, James Edward Egans (Egins) was born a slave on the Calvert County plantation of John Sedgwick. On October 22, 1863, at the age of 19, he was enrolled as a private in Company A of the 9th Regiment, United States Colored Troops (USCT) to serve for three years. Five feet, six and one half inches tall, with dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair, he gave his occupation as a farmer. He was appointed corporal on November 11, 1863, at first muster at Camp Stanton, Maryland, and on February 26, 1864, he was promoted to sergeant. He was mustered out with his regiment on November 26, 1866 and returned home to Island Creek in Calvert County. Less than a month later, on December 12, 1866, he was married to nineteen-year-old Mary Lock by Dr. Andrew J. Wheeler, a black Methodist minister from Bladensburg. In 1891, he began receiving a disability pension for a war injury ("irritability of heart result of sunstroke" at Camp Stanton). The next year, with $400 from a promisory note co-signed by his former master, John Sedgwick, he purchased 23 acres of land adjoining the lands of James Dennis, J. Brooke Bond, and Joseph Himmer in the vicinity of Battle and Island Creeks, Calvert County.
James and Mary had 12 or 13 children between 1867 and 1894, including Bertha M. and Richard S. who were minors when their father died of a stroke at the store of James B. Latimer at Broomes Island, Calvert County at about 10 a.m. on October 13, 1906. Mary survived him by 18 years, dying on April 29, 1924, and was buried at Brooks M.E. Church. At his death, James owned "about 33 [23?] acres of land, one heifer & 2 hogs with a small house with only the necessary furniture." The land was described as "very poor, located near Battle Creek which is a branch of the Patuxent River in Calvert County," with taxes of from $4 to $6 a year and repairs costing about $20 annually.
Source: Maryland Archives 350 Rowe Boulevard Annapolis, MD 21401 Archives of Maryland Biographical Series
FITZHUGH, Anne Frisby, (1727-93) defended her husband, who was blind, and assisted her two sons to escape when her home was threatened by a detachment of British. She was born in Cecil County; died in Calvert County, Md. (See also Anne Frisby Ronsby)
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 65 page 224
Mrs.
Margaret Helen Wells Lee. DAR ID Number: 64642
FITZHUGH, Peregrine, (1759-1811), was cornet in the Continental Dragoons at the age of eighteen. He was aide to Washington and served to the close of the war, when he was captain of Virginia Dragoons. He was an original member of the Cincinnati. He was born in Calvert Co., Maryland; died in Sodus, New York.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 39 page 145
Mrs. Ellen
Cooke Fitz Hugh Wanamaker. DAR ID Number: 38396
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 65 page 224
Mrs.
Margaret Helen Wells Lee. DAR ID Number: 64642
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 97 page 61
Mrs.
Myrtice Scott West. DAR ID Number: 96194
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 121 page 241
Miss
Emma Katharine Edwards. DAR ID Number: 120776
FITZHUGH, William, (1721-98), was a member of the Maryland Convention 1776 and subsequently, Council of State. He was born in Stafford Co., Va., removed to Maryland before the revolution and died in Calvert county, Md. William Frisby Fitzhugh, (1761-1839), was cornet of the 3d Continental Dragoons, 1779 and served to the close of the war. He was born in Calvert Co., Md.; died in Livingston Co., N. Y.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 31 page 133
Mrs.
Isabella S. Fitzhugh Wells. DAR ID Number: 30385
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 60 page 269
Mrs.
Augusta Detmering Maynadier. DAR ID Number: 59797
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 65 page 224
Mrs.
Margaret Helen Wells Lee. DAR ID Number: 64642
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 95 page 239
Miss Nona
Nell Johnson. DAR ID Number: 94793
FITZHUGH, William Frisby , (1761-1839), was an officer of Col. George Baylor's regiment known as Mrs. Washington's [p.197] Guard as they escorted herself and household from Boston to New York. He was taken prisoner at Tappan, 1778, where the regiment was surprised and the colonel wounded. He was subsequently in the dragoons under Greene in the south and served to the close of the war. He was born in Calvert Co., Md.; died in Livingston Co., N. Y.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 29 page 197
Mrs. Mary
Talman Sterling. DAR ID Number: 28540
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 31 page 133
Mrs.
Isabella S. Fitzhugh Wells. DAR ID Number: 30385
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 58 page 116
Mrs. Sybil
Wright Mclandress. DAR ID Number: 57336
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 65 page 224
Mrs.
Margaret Helen Wells Lee. DAR ID Number: 64642
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 76 page 352
Mrs. Maria
Ringgold (Fitzhugh) Fitzhugh. DAR ID Number: 75938
FRENCH, Martin (1735-86) enlisted as a private in the 2nd Maryland regiment, Continental line, 1777. He was born and died in Calvert County.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 49 page 46
Mrs.
Eleanor French Wellons. DAR ID Number: 48094
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 76 page 107
Mrs. Edna
Isabel Troxell Hetzel. DAR ID Number: 75292
FRENCH, William (1763-1822) served as bugler in Lieut. Col. Henry Lee's Legion of Maryland 1780. He was born in Calvert County, Md.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 49 page 46
Mrs.
Eleanor French Wellons. DAR ID Number: 48094
GALBRAITH, James, (1704-87), who had served in the early wars, was appointed lieutenant colonel for Cumberland county but on account of age was unable to do active duty. Daniel Kent, (1745-84), served in the militia of Calvert county, Md., and was a member of the Council of Safety.
Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Volume 28 page 250
Mrs.
Marabel Rorison. DAR ID Number: 27684