Ruth Chenoweth

Ruth married John Pettit Between 1750 and 1784. John was born Between 1705 and 1725; died Between 1750 and 1811. [Group Sheet]

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John and Mary Chenoweth migrated from Cornwall England to USA somtime between the birth of Hannah in 1713 and Arthur in 1716. The Mary Padden records question whether Mary Calvert is the daugther of Charles Clavert, but this has been confirmed by the LDS Records which show her mother to be Mary Banks, one of Charles' four wives. The LDS records also show the birth of the first children in Cornwall and indicate one additional birth, unnamed. Might this have been a child who died young? RRS

John married Mary Calvert 1705, England. Mary was born Abt 1680, England. [Group Sheet]

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The connection of the Chenoweths with the Calvert family, and hence with the Royalty of Europe, is dependent on two possible connections. Were either Mary or Ruth, as family tradition suggests, members of the Calvert Family and the House of Baltimore? Firstly, some notes from "The Chenoweth Family In America." By Shirley D. Harris, Printed by Gerald Printing Service, Scottsville, KY. 1994. "Family tradition has it that...John Chenoweth and Mary Calvert, daughter of Charles Calvert, Third Lord Blatimore, were married about 1705; that Mary was the daughter of the third wife of Charles Calvert, the widow Mary Banks (Thorpe), who Charles married December 16, 1701." "But acceptance of the statements in the paragraph above can be found in many writings about the Chenoweth family history written in the late 1800's and early 1900's, but outside of documentation of the marriage of Charles Cakvert to a Mary Banks (Thorpe), entries supporting the union of John and mary Calvert found in two diaries belonging to the the families of John's sons Arthur and Thomas, and an entry in a Bible which came from the family of John's eldest son John, no other, more substantial proof for any of it has ever been found." The Harris article examines the fact that in order to be married in about 1705, Mary would have been born about 1685, or about 16 years before Charles married Mary Banks. (Editor's (RRS) note: Might this discrepancy be resolved by suggesting that like a number of other Calverts, Mary Calvert was born to Charles and Mary illigitimately and/or while Mary was still married to her first husband?) The article points out that the Calverts were Catholic and the Chenoweths were Protestant, and asks suggest that if Mary was a Calvert "the union would not have been approved by the Catholic Church, and so not recorded." The article notes that John and Mary Chenoweth settled on a large estate locted near the town of Joppa on the Gunpowder River, close to this river's outlet into Chesapeake Bay. The article notes that the move to Maryland took place about the time of the death of Charles Calvert, and that "John's source for this large estate was most likely an inheritance from Charles Calvert to his daughter," and "so the gift, or inheritnace of the estate in Maryland would seem a most credible reason for relocation to the New World." The Latter Day Saints records show Mary Calvert as the daughter of Charles Calvert and Mary Banks.