17 Facts About Henry Darnall

Colonel Henry Darnall was an Irish-born planter, militia officer and politician who served as the chancellor of Maryland from 1683 to 1689.

Henry Darnall was appointed as the proprietary agent for Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and briefly served as deputy governor of Maryland.

Henry Darnall died in 1711, leaving the bulk of his substantial estates to his son, Henry Darnall II.

Henry Darnall was born in Clohamon, County Wexford in 1645, the son of English barrister Philip Darnall and his wife Mary, the daughter of Sir Henry Breton.

Henry Darnall was the first of his family to emigrate to England's North American colonies, and arrived in the Province of Maryland in 1664, when he was granted a tract of 236 acres in what was then Calvert County.

Henry Darnall was strongly allied to the proprietarial interest of Charles Calvert, who had married Henry Darnall's cousin Mary.

Henry Darnall named the estate His Lordship's Kindness in recognition of Calvert's readiness to hand out large swathes of Maryland to his relatives.

In 1689, the ruling Calvert family would lose control of the province, and Henry Darnall would forfeit all his official positions.

Henry Darnall was alleged to be one of the leaders of the plot:.

Henry Darnall responded to the threat by "ranging from place to place" to convince Marylanders that such rumors were baseless.

Henry Darnall tried to raise a body of men from the Patuxent to come to the defence of the capital, but was unsuccessful.

Coode, never a man for temperate language, later accused Henry Darnall of speaking "treasonable expressions" against the monarch:.

Henry Darnall was required to answer to the Privy Council on the accusation of treason, which he denied:.

Henry Darnall used slave labor on his plantations and tobacco farms.

When Joice's contract expired, Henry Darnall refused to honor it and burned it, condemning Joice and her descendants to slavery.

Henry Darnall married Eleanor Hatton Brooke, the widow of Thomas Brooke, Sr.

Henry Darnall died in 1711, stripped of his numerous offices but nonetheless extremely wealthy, having accumulated 30,000 acres of land.