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First Session: March 27, 1671 - April 19, 1671
Second Session: October 10, 1671 - October 19, 1671
Third Session: May 19, 1674 - June 6, 1674
Fourth Session: February 12, 1674/75 - February 24, 1674/75Source:
Edward C. Papenfuse, et al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Vols. 1&2. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1979, 1985.
| Upper House | |
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| Philip Calvert, chancellor
William Talbot, secretary 1, r-11 Baker Brooke William Calvert, secretary 3-41 Thomas Trueman |
Samuel Chew
Edward Fitzherbert, r-22 Jesse Wharton, a-3 Thomas Taillor, a-3 Nathaniel Utie, a-3 |
| Lower House | |||
| Anne Arundel County
Thomas Taillor, spkr 1, c-33 William Burgess Cornelius Howard Robert Franklin |
Baltimore County
James Browne, dns4 John Vanhack, r-45 John Waterton Thomas Howell Thomas Todd, e-4 George Wells, e-4 |
Calvert County
Thomas Brooke Charles Brooke, d-3 Richard Perry, r-35 Daniel Jenifer, r-35 Richard Hall, e-3 William Berry, e-3 Henry Darnall, e-3, s-4 |
Cecil County6
Henry Ward, e-4 Abraham Wilde, e-4 John Vanhack, e-45 Thomas Salmon, e-4 |
| Charles County
Humphrey Warren, dns, d-14 Henry Adams Ignatius Causine John Bowles |
Dorchester County7
Daniel Clarke Henry Trippe5 William Ford, e-45 |
Kent County
Arthur Wright William Bishop |
St. Mary's City8
John Morecroft, e-2, d-3 Thomas Notley, e-2, spkr 2-4 Robert Carvile, e-3 |
| St. Mary's County
Luke Gardiner, s-3 William Boarman William Hatton Thomas Dent, e-3 Jacob Jarbo, e-3 |
Somerset County7
Paul Marsh Roger Woolford Ambrose Dixon, dns4 Ambrose London, dns4 |
Talbot County
Richard Woolman Philemon Lloyd Joseph Wickes William Hambleton |
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1. Talbot returned to England and Ireland after the first session; Calvert had succeeded Talbot as secretary by the third session.
2. Fitzherbert apparently left the colony permanently after the second session.
3. In England during the second session; promoted to the Upper House before the Assembly reconvened in 1674.
4. Browne went to New England; Warren died before the first session convened; Dixon and London never attended, perhaps because of Somerset County's expressed desire to send only two delegates for financial reasons.
5. Questions arose in this Assembly of replacing delegates who were temporarily or permanently out of the colony. When Henry Trippe was absent from the second session, Dorchester County's justices or freemen elected a replacement, identity unknown, who apparently was never seated by the Lower House. By the third session Calvert County voters had replaced Richard Perry and Daniel Jenifer, who had moved to England and Virginia respectively. It is uncertain whether William Ford of Dorchester County was a third delegate, or was replacing Daniel Clarke, who did not attend the fourth session but was still alive. John Vanhack ceased serving from Baltimore County when he was elected as a burgess from newly erected Cecil County in 1674/75. Thomas Todd and George Wells probably replaced both him and James Browne at the fourth session.
6. Cecil County, created in 1674, sent its first delegates to the fourth session.
7. Somerset and Dorchester both requested that they be allowed to send only two delegates due to the heavy financial burden their expenses placed on newer counties.
8. Representation for St. Mary's City was first granted at the second session as an act of Governor Calvert to ensure the presence in the Assembly of John Morecroft and Thomas Notley, two devoted proprietary supporters.
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