page_title: Walter Dulany
section_title: Coming of Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Dulany / Coming of Revolution
caption_attribution_description: English: Daniel Dulaney the Younger by an unknown engraver. "Daniel Dulany (the Younger) owned property that eventually comprised the city of Frederick as well as a portion of the Best Farm."
context_page_description: Walter Dulany was a politician in Colonial Maryland, who served as Mayor of Annapolis from 1766 to 1767. His family house and land at Windmill Point later became the location for the United States Naval Academy.
context_section_description: In 1766, the year he became Mayor, Dulany became embroiled in a war of words with Samuel Chase, a vocal opponent of the Stamp Act and later a signer of the American Declaration of Independence. In an open letter dated July 18, 1766 Chase attacked Dulany, Michael MacNamara, John Brice, George Steuart (1700–1784), and others for publishing an article in the Maryland Gazette Extraordinary of June 19, 1766, in which Chase had been accused of being: "a busy, reckless incendiary, a ringleader of mobs, a foul-mouthed and inflaming son of discord and faction, a common disturber of the public tranquility".
  In his response, Chase accused Dulany and the others of "vanity ... pride and arrogance", and of being brought to power by "proprietary influence, court favour, and the wealth and influence of the tools and favourites who infest this city." 
  In particular Chase accused Dulany of electoral impropriety:
  You were re-elected by mere chance, but upon a petition from the citizens, complaining of an undue election, you were again discharged from the house, and another gentleman chosen in your room, I was unfortunately of that number who were of opinion your election was void, and voted accordingly. This, Sir, is the cause of your resentment against me ...
  The Dulany family were loyal to the Crown during the Revolution and as a result most of their extensive estates were confiscated after the war. Walter's son, Walter Dulany the younger, appealed to the American Loyalist Claims Commission in Great Britain for restitution.
caption: Dulany's older brother, Daniel Dulany the Younger
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