Career.

Daniel Dulaney was born in Queens County, Ireland, and immigrated to Maryland around 1703 with his brothers. He arrived well educated but impoverished. A former attorney general of the province became Dulaney's mentor and trained him in the law. He soon was admitted to the Maryland bar, and for a time he studied law at Gray's Inn in London. He spent twenty years in the Maryland Assembly and several years on the Governor's Council before his death.

Rights of Englishmen.

Dulaney was a leading figure in Maryland during a time when royal authorities debated to what extent English law should be operative in the colony. As an assemblyman Dulaney served on the important committee on laws and also as attorney general. In 1722 the proprietor refused to accept a new Maryland law that seemed to make all English laws applicable in the province, maintaining...