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GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND. 91

Barons of Baltimore and Lords Proprietary of
Maryland.

GEORGE CALVERT, First Lord Baltimore.

Lords Proprietary.

1632—Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore.
1675—Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore.
1715—Benedict Leonard Calvert, Fourth Lord Baltimore.
1715—Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore.
1751—Frederick Calvert, Sixth and Last Lord Baltimore.
1771 to 1776—Henry Harford, Last Proprietary.

A List of Those Who Governed Maryland
Before 1776.

COMPILED BY BERNARD C. STEINER,
Of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

1. William Claiborn, under a trading commission dated May 10, 1631
(3 Md. Arch. Conn. 20), settled at Kent Island August 17, 1631
(3 Md. Arch. Conn. 38), and governed it under the authority
of Virginia.

2. Leonard Calvert, commissioned by his brother, Cecilius Calvert, sec-
ond Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietary of Maryland)
—, 1633; given instructions as "Deputy Governor" Novem-
ber 13, 1633 (Calvert Papers, i. 131); arrived in Maryland with
colonists March 25, 1634; recommissioned April 15, 1637 (3 Md.
Arch. Coun. 49), as "Lieutenant General, Admiral, Chief Cap-
tain and Commander," September 4, 1642 (3 Md. Arch. Conn.
109), and September 6, 1644 (3 Md. Arch. Conn. 152); deposed
in February) 1645. During absences from the Province he left
the following persons in charge of the government: April I,
1638 (he went to Virginia for a short time), Mr. John Lewger,
the Secretary (3 Md. Arch. Coun 71; Lewger had been left in
charge of affairs at St. Mary's when Calvert went to Kent Island
in February 1637-8, 3 Md. Arch. Coun. 64); May 27, 1638 to
August 14, 1638 Captain Thomas Cornwalleys (3 Md. Arch.
Coun. 74, 4, Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 41); May 8, 1641 to July 10,
1641 (he went to Virginia) Captain Thomas Cornwalleys (8 Md.
Arch. Coun. 98, 99); April II, 1643 (Was he away June 23,
1642? 3 Md., Arch. Coun. 103) to September 1644 (he went
to England) Captain Giles Brent (3 Md. Arch. Conn. 130. The
appointment was ratified by the Proprietary July 14, 1648, 3

 

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