Margaret Brent 2
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- I was active in importing servants and lending capital to incoming settlers. I appeared for myself in court to collect my debts and handled my business affairs as a man would have.
- Early in 1645, a Protestant ship captain, Richard Ingle, led a surprise attack on the Catholic settlers in Maryland. He raided the settlement on the St. Mary’s River in the name of the English Parliament, which was carrying on a civil war with Charles I. He burned the Catholic chapel, plundered the homes of Catholic settlers, and returned to England with Giles Brent and the Jesuit priests in chains.
- A year later, the governor returned with a group of hired soldiers. Lacking hard currency to pay them, he had pledged his estate and that of his brother, Lord Baltimore, as security for their wages. Ingle and his supporters were soon defeated.
- Unfortunately, Governor Calvert became ill and died shortly after his return. On his deathbed, he appointed Thomas Greene to replace him as governor and named me, Margaret Brent as executrix of his will, in charge of paying his debts and disposing of his estate.
- He instructed me to “take all and pay all.” It wasn’t uncommon for a woman, usually the dead man’s wife, to be named executrix, but my situation was unique. I wasn’t Calvert’s wife— I wasn’t married at all.
- Not long after Leonard Calvert died, the soldiers he had hired to protect his colony began to demand their pay. I had used the governor’s money to pay his other debts, but there was not enough left for the soldiers, and under English law, I couldn’t sell his land. The soldiers were threatening to mutiny, and there was a shortage of food in the Colony.Maryland’s Lady Savior
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