Leonard Calvert, first Governor of Maryland and one of my 9th great grandfathers and the Calvert who came to America and stayed.

In an artists depiction of Leonard Calvert greeting Indians along with his 200 English settlers, in 1634, a Jesuit priest is depicted on the left with hand and arm extended celebrating Mass. The settlement occured at the Potomac River in Maryland and the colony was conceived as a haven for English and Irish Catholics. America's first act which guaranteed religious freedom was enacted in Maryland thanks in large part to the Calvert's.