Richard Ingle

Richard Ingle
An early 17th-century English trading ship similar to one Captain Richard Ingle used as a colonial tobacco trader and later as a privateer and pirate fighting the Maryland Catholics in the name of English Parliament
Born	1609 London, Kingdom of England?
Died	1653 St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland, Commonwealth of England?
Cause of death	hanging?
Residence	Province of Maryland
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Occupation	trader, ship captain, privateer, pirate
Employer	self-employed
Known for	For making war with the Catholic colonial Governor Lord Baltimore and Catholics in Province of Maryland in the name of English Parliament and the Maryland Puritans, plundering ships and attacking and seizing of the colonial capital St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland
Opponent(s)	Catholic colonial Governor Lord Baltimore, Catholics in Province of Maryland
Piratical career
Allegiance	Commonwealth of England
Years active	1642-1653
Rank	Captain
Base of operations	Chesapeake Bay, St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland
Battles/wars	Plundering Time (1644-1646) Capture of St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland (1645)

Plundering Time (1644-1646)

Richard Ingle (1609–1653) was an English colonial seaman and tobacco trader in the American colony of Maryland. Ingle took over the colonial capital of the proprietary government in St. Mary's City removing Catholic Governor Lord Baltimore from power in 1645. Along with another Protestant rebel, Captain William Claiborne, he waged war with the Catholic colonial Governor Lord Baltimore and Maryland Catholics in the name of English Parliament after his ship was seized and confiscated and siding with the Maryland Puritans, in a period known as the "Plundering Time" in which unrest and lawlessness existed. Ingle and his men attacked ships and conquered the colonial capital, St. Mary's City, Province of Maryland. Most of the Richard Ingle's life and background are unknown.

Richard Ingle was born in England, possibly in London, into a Protestant family that schooled him.

He became a trader and ship captain. Ingle transported the goods of Maryland colonial traders from England and back and became a prominent tobacco trader.

When the English Civil War broke out, Ingle sided with the Puritans. He fell out with the Catholic leaders of Maryland, and when the royalist governor Lord Baltimore Leonard Calvert seized his ship, he escaped.

Richard Ingle returned in February 1645 with the ship Reformation and attacked the Maryland colony in the name of English Parliament. He attacked the settlement of St. Mary's City, the colonial capital and imprisoned leaders of the colony. Calvert, the royalist proprietary governor, fled to Virginia.