Michael MacNamara
Michael MacNamara was a politician in Colonial Maryland, who served 3 terms as Mayor of Annapolis.
Politics
MacNamara held a number of Proprietary appointments and, politially, was a Loyalist. He was Mayor of Annapolis on three occasions, from 1746–1747, 1753–1754, and 1760–1761.
Coming of Revolution
In 1766, MacNamara became embroiled in a war of words 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 MacNamara, John Brice, Walter Dulany, 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 MacNamara and the others of "vanity...pride and arrogance", and of being brought to power by "proprietory influence, court favour, and the wealth and influence of the tools and favourites who infest this city." [1]
In particular Chase accused MacNamara, in highly personal terms, of having been "reduced to a servile dependency" by "the consequences of a bad life", and accused him of having allowed his children to be "reduced to beggary by your continued round of vice and folly, drunkenness and debauchery". [1]
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