Philip Calvert

Philip Calvert was chancellor and briefly governor of the Maryland colony, a son of the family that founded it as a haven for English Catholics. He was buried in a rare lead coffin beneath the Brick Chapel at St. Mary's City, the colony's first capital. His genome is among the earliest sequenced from colonial North America's founding generation.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Ancient DNA from the lead coffins of colonial Maryland.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because this is a single real individual, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that Philip Calvert is your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who was Philip Calvert?

  Philip Calvert (1626–1682 CE, St. Mary's City, Maryland, USA) is one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by one sequenced ancient genome published in the study "Ancient DNA from the lead coffins of colonial Maryland".

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  What does "matching" Philip Calvert mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Is Philip Calvert my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near this individual's in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to Philip Calvert?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

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