BARONS OF BALTIMORE AND LORDS PROPRIETARY OF
MARYLAND

GEORGE CALVERT, First Lord Baltimore

Lords Proprietary

1632—Caecilius 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 Claiborne, under a trading commission dated May 16, 1631,
(3 Md. Arch. Coun. 20), settled at Kent Island August 17, 1631 (3
Md. Arch. Coun. 32), and governed it under the authority of Virginia.

2. Leonard Calvert commissioned by his brother, Caecilius Calvert second
Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietary of Maryland,—1633;
given instructions as "Deputy Governor" November 13, 1633 (Cal-
vert Papers, i. 131); arrived in Maryland with colonists March 25,
1634; recommissioned April 16, 1637 (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 49), as
"Lieutenant General, Admiral, Chief Captain and Commander,"
September 4, 1642 (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 109), and September 6, 1664
(3 Md. Arch. Coun. 152); deposed in February, 1645. During ab-
sences from the Province he left the following persons in charge of the
government: April 1, 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 M. Arch. Prov. Ct. 41); May 8, 1641, to July 10, 1641
(he went to Virginia), Captain Thomas Cornwalleys (3 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. Coun. 130. The appointment was ratified
by the Proprietary July 14, 1643, 3 Md. Arch. Coun. 135, and the
powers were extended on November 16, 1643, 3 Md. Arch. Coun. 139.
As to his powers while locum-tenens see 4 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 217);
September 30, 1644 (for a short time to his "well beloved cosin"), to
November 16, 1644, William Brainthwayt (3 Md. Arch. Coun. 160,
4 Md. Arch. Prov. Ct. 286), Brainthwayt was sworn on October 3.

3. Edward Ingle usurped the government in February, 1645, and ruled
for some months.