PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF 1774-1776

FIFTH CONVENTION '

July 26-August 14, 1775

	ST. MARY'S*	Robert Townshend Hooe	DORCHESTER	Richard Tilghman Earle
	John Reeder, Jr.	John Dent	Robert Goldsborough	Solomon Wright
	Richard Barnes	Samuel Love (DNS)	James Murray	WORCESTER
	John Allen Thomas	Thomas Hanson Marshall	Henry Hooper	Samuel Handy
	Jeremiah Jordan	(DNS)	Thomas Ennalls	Peter Chaille
	KENT	Philip Richard Fendall	Robert Harrison	Zadock Purnell
	William Ringgold	Samuel Hanson, of Samuel	CECIL*	William Morris
	Richard Lloyd	William Harrison	John Veazey, Jr.
	Thomas Smyth	John Hoskins Stone	Joseph Gilpin	FREDERICK Henry Griffith
	Joseph Earle	BALTIMORE*	William Ward (DNS)	Charles Beatty
	Thomas Beddingfield Hands	Thomas Cockey Deye	Stephen Hyland (DNS)	Baker Johnson
	Thomas Ringgold	(DNS)	William Rumsey	Richard Brooke
	Joseph Nicholson, Jr.	Charles Ridgely (DNS)	Nathaniel Ramsay	Jacob Funk
	ANNE ARUNDEL	Walter Tolley, Jr.	John D. Thompson	John Hanson, Jr.
	Samuel Chase	Charles Ridgely, of John	Charles Rumsey	Samuel Beall
	Thomas Johnson	Charles Ridgely, of William	John Cox	William Deakins, Jr.
	John Hall	John Moale	Patrick Ewing (DNS)	Thomas Sprigg Wooton
	Ephraim Howard	William Buchanan	Peter Lawson	Thomas Cramphin, Jr.
	Charles Carroll, Barrister	Benjamin Nicholson	William Currer	Upton Sheredine
	Charles Carroll of	John Cradock	PRINCE GEORGE'S*	Joseph Chapline
	Carrollton	Jeremiah Townly Chase	Richard Brooke	HARFORD
	Thomas Dorsey	Thomas Harrison	Josias Beall	Richard Dallam
	Thomas Tillard	Darby Lux	Robert Tyler	Samuel Durham
	John Dorsey	Walter Tolley (DNS)	John Rogers	Thomas Bond
	William Paca	Robert Alexander	William Bowie	Samuel Ashmead
	Rezin Hammond	James Gittings	Walter Bowie	Benedict Edward Hall
	Brice T. B. Worthington	TALBOT	George Lee	John Beale Howard
	Matthias Hammond	Matthew Tilghman,	Thomas Gantt, Jr.	Francis Holland
	CALVERT	chairman	Joshua Beall	Benjamin Rumsey
	Edward Gantt	James Lloyd Chamberlaine	Osborn Sprigg	Ignatius Wheeler, Jr.
	Samuel Chew	Nicholas Thomas	David Craufurd	James MacComas
	Edward Reynolds Benjamin Mackall IV Alexander Somerville	Edward Lloyd William Hindman Richard Tilghman James Benson	Joseph Sim Thomas Contee Benjamin Hall, of Francis Luke Marbury (DNS)	William Webb CAROLINE Nathaniel Potter
	CHARLES*	Francis Baker	Stephen West	Joshua Clarke
	George Dent (DNS) Samuel Hanson (DNS)	Peregrine Tilghman	John Contee Thomas Sim Lee	Peter Adams Richard Mason
	William Smallwood	SOMERSET		William Molleston
	Josias Hawkins (DNS) Francis Ware (DNS) Joseph Hanson Harrison (DNS)	William Waters Josiah Polk George Dashiell John Steward	QUEEN ANNE'S Turbutt Wright James Tilghman Thomas Wright	Benson Stainton John Stevens William Hopper William Richardson
	Thomas Stone	John Waters	John Wallace	Henry Dickinson
	Daniel Jenifer	Gustavus Scott	James Hollyday John Brown

		FIRST COUNCIL	OF SAFETY 2
		August 29-	-October 21, 1775
	WESTERN SHORE	Charles Carroll, Barrister	EASTERN SHORE	James Hollyday
	Daniel of St. Thomas	Thomas Stone (DNS)	Matthew Tilghman	Richard Lloyd
	Jenifer, president	Samuel Chase	John Beale Bordley (Dcl)	Edward Lloyd
	Thomas Johnson	Robert Alexander	Robert Goldsborough	Thomas Smyth
	William Paca	Charles Carroll of	(DNS)	Henry Hooper
		Carrollton

¹ Election results survive for only those counties marked with an asterisk; the lists of delegates for the other counties are
based on attendance at the Convention. According to the published proceedings, 141 delegates attended.

² By the time of the Fifth Convention it was apparent that the extra-legal government needed an executive branch that
would implement the resolves of the conventions on a continuing basis. This executive branch, termed the Council of
Safety, was selected by the conventions. Its members were named to represent either the Western or Eastern Shore in
all but the fourth Council.

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