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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">11th Proprietary Governor of Maryland</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">William Joseph</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">11th <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Maryland" title="List of colonial governors of Maryland">Proprietary-Governor of Maryland</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1688–1689</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Calvert,_4th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore">Benedict Calvert</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Coode_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="John Coode (Governor of Maryland)">John Coode</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Joseph</b> was the <b>11th Proprietary Governor of <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Maryland</a></b> from 1688 to 1689. He was appointed by the colony's proprietor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_3rd_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore">Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore</a>. Joseph attempted to maintain control of the colony in the proprietor's name, but religious turmoil related to the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a> in England led to Joseph's being removed from office by Protestant colonists and the Calvert family losing control of the colony. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Term_as_Governor">Term as Governor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Joseph_(governor)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Term as Governor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Catholic</a> Calvert family established Maryland as a place where English Catholics, who were a religious minority, could find religious tolerance. However, many of the colonists who arrived in Maryland were <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>. In 1681, Protestant colonists, especially members of the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican Church">Anglican Church</a>, began a series of local rebellions against proprietary control by Calvert. Calvert appointed Joseph in the hope that he would be able to stop these rebellions.<sup id="cite_ref-cookson_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cookson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is not clear whether Joseph was actually appointed Governor or the head of the colony's Council of Deputy Governors. Legally, the Governor of the colony from 1684 was Calvert's young son, <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Calvert,_4th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore">Benedict Leonard Calvert</a>. However, executive power in the colony was for all practical purposes led by the Council, which included a number of prominent colonists. Despite this, the State of Maryland includes Joseph on their list of proprietary Governors.<sup id="cite_ref-cookson_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cookson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protestant_Revolution_of_1689">Protestant Revolution of 1689</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Joseph_(governor)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Protestant Revolution of 1689"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the time Joseph arrived in Maryland, religious conflict in England had reached a peak during the events of the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>, in which the Catholic <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">King James II</a> was overthrown and replaced with the Protestant <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William of Orange</a>. It would take time for this news to arrive in the colony.<sup id="cite_ref-cookson_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cookson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joseph, an Irishman and like Calvert a Catholic, was a strong supporter of the King. Soon after his arrival, he asked the Assembly to create a holiday on the date of the birth of James II's heir. He also implemented a number of unpopular reforms at the request of the proprietor. Export of tobacco was limited to high-quality cask tobacco more easily produced by large landholders. In addition, Calvert had ordered that all future tax payments were to be made in <a href="/wiki/Coin" title="Coin">specie</a> rather than in tobacco.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When news reached the colony that the King had been deposed, Joseph attempted to maintain control by asking planters to turn in their weapons and temporarily cancelling the meeting of the colonial assembly scheduled for April. Protestant settlers began gathering in armed groups, partially fueled by rumors that the Catholics would ally with Native Americans to drive Protestants out of the colony.<sup id="cite_ref-Low_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Low-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joseph attempted one final time to convince the colonial assembly to support the deposed King, but Protestant colonists seized control of the colony in July.<sup id="cite_ref-cookson_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cookson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_Darnall_I.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Henry_Darnall_I.JPG/150px-Henry_Darnall_I.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Henry_Darnall_I.JPG/225px-Henry_Darnall_I.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Henry_Darnall_I.JPG 2x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Col. Henry Darnall, Deputy Governor of Maryland and a <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1689, Maryland <a href="/wiki/Puritans" title="Puritans">Puritans</a>, by now a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the <a href="/wiki/Proprietary_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="Proprietary Governor">proprietary government</a>, in part because of the apparent preferment of Catholics like Joseph and Deputy Governor Colonel <a href="/wiki/Henry_Darnall" title="Henry Darnall">Henry Darnall</a> to official positions of power. Led by Colonel <a href="/wiki/John_Coode_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="John Coode (Governor of Maryland)">John Coode</a>, an army of 700 Puritans defeated a proprietorial army led by Colonel Darnall.<sup id="cite_ref-roarke_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roarke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Darnall later wrote: "Wee being in this condition and no hope left of quieting the people thus enraged, to prevent effusion of blood, capitulated and surrendered." The victorious Coode and his Puritans set up a new government that outlawed <a href="/wiki/Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism">Catholicism</a>, and Darnall was deprived of all his official positions.<sup id="cite_ref-roarke_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roarke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flight_from_Maryland">Flight from Maryland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Joseph_(governor)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Flight from Maryland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Joseph and other prominent Catholics fled the colony, possibly taking some of the colony's arms and ammunition stores with them.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joseph was replaced with <a href="/wiki/John_Coode_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="John Coode (Governor of Maryland)">John Coode</a>, a leader of a group known as the Protestant Associators, who had been a primary instigator of the rebellion.<sup id="cite_ref-Low_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Low-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although John Coode and his followers later claimed that the rebellion had been a peaceful one, they were accused, among other crimes, of plundering the estates of those who supported the proprietary regime and embezzling the colony's revenue. Coode and his followers claimed that in addition to the religious concerns that underlay the rebellion, the previous regime had not adequately provided for the poor in the colony and had instead burdened them with high taxation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to replacing Joseph, the new colonial leaders were eventually successful in having proprietary control removed from the Calvert family and in barring Catholics from voting, bearing arms, or serving on juries.<sup id="cite_ref-cookson_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cookson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1704 an Act was passed "to prevent the growth of Popery in this Province", preventing Catholics from holding political office.<sup id="cite_ref-roarke_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roarke-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Full religious toleration would not be restored in Maryland until the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Joseph_(governor)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Maryland" title="List of colonial governors of Maryland">List of colonial governors of Maryland</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Joseph_(governor)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 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Blakiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Copley" title="Lionel Copley">Copley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Greenberry" title="Nicholas Greenberry">Greenberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Nicholson" title="Francis Nicholson">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Blakiston" title="Nathaniel Blakiston">Nat. 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Calvert, 5th Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ogle" title="Samuel Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen" title="Thomas Bladen">Bladen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ogle" title="Samuel Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Tasker_Sr." title="Benjamin Tasker Sr.">Tasker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Sharpe" title="Horatio Sharpe">Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Eden,_1st_Baronet,_of_Maryland" title="Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland">Eden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Maryland" title="List of governors of Maryland">State <span class="nobold">(since 1776)</span></a><br /> <figure class="mw-halign-center mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/45px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/68px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/90px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnson_(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Johnson (jurist)">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sim_Lee" title="Thomas Sim Lee">T. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Paca" title="William Paca">Paca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Smallwood" title="William Smallwood">Smallwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Eager_Howard" title="John Eager Howard">J. Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Plater" title="George Plater">Plater</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/James_Brice" title="James Brice">Brice</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sim_Lee" title="Thomas Sim Lee">T. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hoskins_Stone" title="John Hoskins Stone">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_(Maryland_politician)" title="John Henry (Maryland politician)">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Ogle" title="Benjamin Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Francis_Mercer" title="John Francis Mercer">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bowie" title="Robert Bowie">R. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wright_(Maryland_politician)" title="Robert Wright (Maryland politician)">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lloyd_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)">E. Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bowie" title="Robert Bowie">R. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levin_Winder" title="Levin Winder">Winder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Carnan_Ridgely" title="Charles Carnan Ridgely">Ridgely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Goldsborough" title="Charles Goldsborough">C. Goldsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sprigg" title="Samuel Sprigg">Sprigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Stevens_Jr." title="Samuel Stevens Jr.">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kent" title="Joseph Kent">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Martin_(politician)" title="Daniel Martin (politician)">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_King_Carroll" title="Thomas King Carroll">T. Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Martin_(politician)" title="Daniel Martin (politician)">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Howard_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="George Howard (Governor of Maryland)">G. Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="James Thomas (Governor of Maryland)">J. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Veazey" title="Thomas Veazey">Veazey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grason" title="William Grason">Grason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Thomas" title="Francis Thomas">F. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pratt_(Maryland_politician)" title="Thomas Pratt (Maryland politician)">Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Francis_Thomas" title="Philip Francis Thomas">P. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Louis_Lowe" title="Enoch Louis Lowe">Lowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Watkins_Ligon" title="Thomas Watkins Ligon">Ligon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Holliday_Hicks" title="Thomas Holliday Hicks">Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Bradford" title="Augustus Bradford">Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Swann" title="Thomas Swann">Swann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oden_Bowie" title="Oden Bowie">O. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pinkney_Whyte" title="William Pinkney Whyte">Whyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Black_Groome" title="James Black Groome">Groome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Carroll" title="John Lee Carroll">J. 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Goldsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerson_Harrington" title="Emerson Harrington">Harrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Ritchie" title="Albert Ritchie">Ritchie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Nice" title="Harry Nice">Nice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_O%27Conor" title="Herbert O'Conor">O'Conor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Preston_Lane_Jr." title="William Preston Lane Jr.">Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_McKeldin" title="Theodore McKeldin">McKeldin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Millard_Tawes" title="J. Millard Tawes">Tawes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_Mandel" title="Marvin Mandel">Mandel</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blair_Lee_III" title="Blair Lee III">B. 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