Daniel Richardson was a colonial official who served as North Carolina's receiver general, meaning he collected land rents from the colony's inhabitants. He later served as judge of the Court of Admiralty and as the colony's attorney general from 1714 until his death in about March 1724. As attorney general, he prosecuted cases on behalf of the crown, including a case in 1722 wherein John Cope, an American Indian man, was charged with burglary.