Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett (August 6, 1609 – April 12, 1675) was an English Colonial Governor of Virginia.
... While Governor of Virginia, he also spent much time directing affairs in Maryland, negotiating with the Susquehannock tribe and signing a treaty with them on July 5, 1652, whereby they ceded their claims to "all the land lying from the Patuxent River unto Palmer's Island on the western side of the bay of Chesapeake, and from Choptank River to the northeast branch which lies to the northward of Elk River on the eastern side of the bay." (Some of this area continued to be claimed by the Nanticoke Indian Tribe, however.) He helped ensure Puritan control over the colony of Maryland, then on March 30, 1655, voluntarily abandoned his office and left for England to see Cromwell.
On November 30, 1657, Bennett, having returned to the colonies, signed the treaty with Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, which recognized the latter's claim to Maryland. Continued