Ingle, Richard, 1609-1653

found: Exploring Maryland's roots website, July 7, 2003(Richard Ingle, 1609-1653; sometimes called "that ungrateful Villaigne" by those living in Maryland, because when he took control of Maryland's government in 1645, he allowed his men to destroy the property of many Catholic settlers; he was born in England, and probably came from a middle-class Protestant family; eventually he became a trader and a ship captain and was at one point described as the chief trader to Maryland; when civil war broke out in England, Ingle sided with the radical Protestants, or Puritans, against the King and after disagreements with the Catholic leaders of Maryland, he decided to attack the colony in the name of Parliament)