Henry Darnall II

He was the son of the politician and planter Henry Darnall, who was the Proprietary Agent of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, and served for a time as Deputy Governor of the Province.

His eldest son Henry Darnall III (c1702-c1783) inherited the bulk of what remained of his estates, and one of his grandchildren, Daniel Carroll, would become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

During the Protestant Revolution of 1689 Darnall was defeated in battle by the Puritan John Coode, who seized power in the Province and barred Roman Catholics from holding public office.

[1] Worse, despite being born to great wealth, by the 1720s Henry Darnall II was in financial trouble, and sometime between 1727 and 1730 he had sold much of his property,[2] including 6,700 acres of His Lordship's Kindness.

In around 1710 he commissioned the painter Justus Engelhardt Kühn, the earliest known professional artist to work in the Middle Atlantic colonies, to paint portraits of his two children.