George Calvert (planter)

George Calvert
Born	(1768-02-02)February 2, 1768 Mount Airy, Maryland
Died	January 28, 1838(1838-01-28) (aged 69) Riverdale Park, Maryland
Spouse	Rosalie Stier Calvert
Children	9, including: George Henry Calvert Charles Benedict Calvert
Parent(s)	Benedict Swingate Calvert Elizabeth Calvert

George Calvert (February 2, 1768 – January 28, 1838) was an American planter active^[1] in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Maryland. His plantation house, Riversdale plantation, also known as the Calvert Mansion, is a five-part, large-scale late Georgian mansion with superior Federal interior, built between 1801 and 1807, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. Calvert's wife, the Belgian-born heiress Rosalie Stier Calvert, was an indefatigable correspondent whose letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991. The letters range in date from 1795 to 1821, and illuminate the life of the Calverts' plantation household during the events leading up to and during the War of 1812.^[2]