. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. ny suitors pressed their claims for herhand but for all she had a gentle refusal. She began tofade and droop and her health broke down. Her fatherdied and her mother, seeing that her child was facingdeath, gave her consent to the engagement. But it wastoo late. The fine spirit had been tried too long, anddeath bore it away. The issue of George Parke Custis and Eleanor Cal-vert (the first wedding in the Calvert house) was: ElizaParke, born August 21, 1776, married, March 20, 1796,to Thomas Law, secretary to Warren Hastings in India,and has descendan
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. ny suitors pressed their claims for herhand but for all she had a gentle refusal. She began tofade and droop and her health broke down. Her fatherdied and her mother, seeing that her child was facingdeath, gave her consent to the engagement. But it wastoo late. The fine spirit had been tried too long, anddeath bore it away. The issue of George Parke Custis and Eleanor Cal-vert (the first wedding in the Calvert house) was: ElizaParke, born August 21, 1776, married, March 20, 1796,to Thomas Law, secretary to Warren Hastings in India,and has descendants—Martha, born December 31,1777,who married, January 6,1795, Thomas Peter a wealthymerchant of Georgetown, D. C, and has descendants,many of them in Washington; Eleanor Parke, bornMarch 21,1779, who married, February 22,1799, MajorLawrence Lewis, and has descendants; George Wash-ington Parke, born April 30, 1781, who married MaryFitzhugh, of Arlington, Virginia, whose daughter, MaryRandolph Custis Parke, born October 1, 1806, married, 192. MOUNT AIRY June 30, 1831, Robert E. Lee, commander-in-chief ofthe armies of the Confederacy. By her marriage to Dr. Stuart, Eleanor had sevenchildren, four of whom married, leaving a large descent. George Calvert, the only other son of Benedict tohave issue, built, in 1802, another beautiful homestead atKiverdale, Maryland, about sixteen miles north ofCroome, more magnificent in size and decoration thanMount Airy; and this place, which is more accessibleby rail to visitors than the older homestead, is often mis-taken for that other dwelling house. His children were:Caroline Maria, born July 15, 1800, who marriedThomas Willing Morris, of Philadelphia; GeorgeHenry, born January 2,1803, who married, May, 1821,Elizabeth Steuart, and died without issue, May 24,1889;Marie Louise Calvert; Rosalie Eugenia, born October19, 1806, who married Charles Henry Corter; CharlesBenedict, born August 23,1808, who married CharlotteAugusta Norris; Henry Albert
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