Archives of Maryland
Historical List
Provincial Court Justices, 1637-1775


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Provincial Court Justices
Dates of Service Name
1637-1643 Leonard Calvert
1637-1642, 1658 Thomas Cornwaleys
1637 Jerome Hawley
1637-1643 John Lewger
1637 Robert Wintour
1642-1643 John Langford
1642 Francis Trafford
1642-1643 William Blount
1643-1648 Giles Brent
1643;1661-1662 James Neale
1644-1658 Thomas Gerard
1644 William Brainthwite
1647-1650 Thomas Greene
1649-1653 Thomas Hatton
1649-1659 William Stone
1649-1659 John Price
1649 John Pile
1649-1650 Robert Vaughan
1650-1653 William Eltonhead
1650 William Mitchell
1650-1652 Robert Brookes
1652-1657 Richard Preston
1652 Richard Banks
1652 Francis Yardley
1653-1661 Robert Clarke
1653 Richard Bennett
1654-1655 William Durand
1654-1657 Richard Euinge
1654-1656 William Fuller
1654-1661, 1663, 1666 Edward Lloyd
1654 Leonard Strong
1654-1657 John Lawson
1654-1657 William Parker
1654-1657 William Parrott
1654-1655 Sampson Waringe
1655-1657 John Hatch
1655 Robert Sly
1655-1656 Thomas Meeres
1655-1657 Woodman Stockley
1655-1657 Michael Brooke
1655-1657 John Pott
1657 Thomas Thomas
1657-1666 William Evens
1657 Sam Withers
1658 Luke Barber
1658-1679 Baker Brooke
1658-1662 Philip Calvert
1658-1659 Josias Fendall
1658 Job Chandeler
1659 Nathaniel Utie
1659 Miles Cooke
1660-1666; 1676-1679 Henry Coursey
1660-1663 John Bateman
1661-1666 Charles Calvert
1661; 1694-1697 William Hatton
1661 William Lucas
1661 Peter Mills
1661-1663 Henry Sewell
1663-1666 Jerome White
1666, 1683 Thomas Truman
1666 Richard Boughton
1669-[1682] Samuel Chew
1670-1673 Edward Fitz-Herbert
1670-1671 William Talbot
1670, 1676 Jesse Wharton
1673 Thomas Taylour
1676-1679 Thomas Notley
1676-1685 Thomas Taillor
1676 Cecil Calvert
1677-1679 Benjamin Rozer
[1669-1682] William Calvert
1679-1687 William Diggs
1679 George Talbot
1679-1689 Henry Darnall
1679-1689 Vince Lowe
1679-1685 William Stevens
1682-1684 William Burges
1683-1684 John Darnall
1683-1689 Nicolas Sewall
1684 Thomas Tailor
1684-1689 Edward Pye
1685 Henry Digges
1686-1689 Clement Hill
1689 William Joseph
1691-1694 John Addison
1691-1692 Nehemiah Blackiston
1691-1692 John Brooke
1691-1692 John Edmondson
1691 Nicholas Gassaway
1691-1694 Nicholas Greenbury
1691-1692 Henry Jowles
1691-1696 Robert King
1691-1695 Robert Mason
1691-1692 George Robotham
1691-1694 Thomas Tench
1692 Henry Jowles
1692 Lionel Copely
1692 Thomas Lawrence
1693 Richard Cloud
1693 Nicholas Blackiston
1693-1694 Thomas Brooke
1693-1694 David Browne
1693 Charles Hutchins
1694-1698 John Hammond
1694-1702 John Pollard
1694-1698 Thomas Tasker
1694 Thomas Lawrence Barrett
1694 John Watson
1694 Francis Nicholson
1694-1700 Richard Hill
1694-1699 Robert Smith
1695-1696 Edward Jones
1695-1697 Henry Lowe
1695 Edward James
1697-1706 John Hawkins
1697-1707 Philip Hoskins
1697 Francis Jenkins
1697-1701 John Thompson
1698-1703 James Keetch
1698-1699 Thomas Staley
1699-1702 John Bigger
1699-1706; 1726 Thomas Greenfield
1699-1701 James Saunders
1699-1713 Thomas Smithson
1699-1701 James Round
1700 Ralph Foster
1700 Joshua Graybert
1700 Richard Smithson
1701-1705 John Hall
1702-1705 Seth Biggs
1702-1718 Thomas Smith
1702-1725 Samuel Young
1702 William Whittington
1703-1716 Thomas Smyth
1704-1705 John Bozman
1704-1706; 1718 William Harris
1704-1705 Thomas Hicks
1704 John Hill
1704-1707 George Lingan
1704-1706 Phillip Lynes
1707-1719 William Holland
1707-1711 Phillemon Lloyd
1708 Kenelm Cheseldyn
1709-1714 Robert Bradley
1712 William Potts
1714-1727 Thomas Addison
1715-1721 Richard Tilghman
1716-1726 James Harris
1716-1725 James Stoddart
1719-1726 John Mackall
1720-1721 Nathaniel Hynson
1720-1732 William Loch
1722-1729 St. Ledger Codd
1722-1729 Roger Woolford
1726-1732 Benjamin Tasker
1726-1743 Levin Gale
1726-1732 Philip Lee
1726-1736 John Smith
1729-1732 George Plater
1729-1732 Matthew Tilghman Ward
1729-1754 George Dent
1729-1733 John Fendall
1731-1731 John Johnson
1732 Joseph Belt
1732-1752 Robert Gordon
1732-1735 Charles Hammond
1732-1735 James Holliday
1732-1733 William Turbut
1735-1740 John Addison
1735-1738 John Copson
1735-1749, 1766 Henry Hooper
1735-1744 Stephen Knight
1735-1752 Benjamin Young
1738 John Hicks
1738-1741 Samuel Chamberlain
1741-1766 John Brice
1741-1749 William Rogers
1743-1767 John Darnall
1744-1733 John Hepburn
1744-1746 Philip Thomas
1746-1762 Robert Jenkins Henry
1746-1765 Richard Tilghman
1749-1769 George Stewart
1754-1759 William Goldsborough
1754-1762 John Hall
1754 Richard Lloyd
1756-1769 Beddingfield Hands
1766-1773 John Beale Bordley
1766-1775 Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
1766-1773 John Leeds
1770-1775 William Hayward
1770-1775 Philip Thomas Lee
1773-1775 John Cooke
Chief Justices
Name Chief Justice
Leonard Calvert 1637-1643
Giles Brent 1643
Thomas Greene 1647-1649
William Stone 1649-1653
Richard Bennett 1653
Josias Fendall 1658-1659
Phillip Calvert 1660
Charles Calvert 1661-1663
Thomas Notley 1676-1679
Henry Coursey 1683
Nehemiah Blackiston 1691
Lionel Copley 1692
Nicholas Greenbury 1693-1694
Thomas Lawrence Barrett 1694
Robert Smith 1697-1699
Richard Hill 1699-1700
Thomas Smithson 1701-1707
William Holland 1709-1719
Samuel Young 1720-1725
Thomas Addison 1726-1727
Matthew Tilghman Ward 1726-1732
Levin Gale 1732-1743
Philip Thomas 1744-1746
Benjamin Young 1746-1752
George Dent 1754
John Brice 1754-1766
Henry Hooper 1766
William Hayward 1770-1775