Councils of Safety Exercising Power in the Intervals
Between Conventions

August 14, 1775 (first met August 29). This and all other committees
served from the close of the convention at which they were elected to the
close of the one next succeeding. Eight were from each shore of the bay.
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, President; Matthew Tilghman, Thomas
Johnson, Thomas Smyth, Henry Hooper, William Paca, John Beale Bordley
(declined to serve), Richard Lloyd, Edward Lloyd, James Hollyday, Charles
Carroll, Barrister; Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Thomas Stone, Samuel
Chase, Robert Alexander and Robert Goldsborough.

January 17, 1776 (first met January 18). Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer,
President; Charles Carroll, Barrister; John Hall, Benjamin Rumsey, James
Tilghman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Bedingfield Hands.

May 25,1776 (first met May 27). Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, President;
Charles Carroll, Barrister; John Hall, Benjamin Rumsey, George Plater,
James Tilghman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Bedingfield Hands, William
Hayward.

July 5, 1776 (first met July 6). Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, President;
John Hall, George Plater, Charles Carroll, Barrister; Benjamin Rumsey
Thomas Smyth, James Tilghman, Joseph Nicholson, Jr., Thomas Beding-
field Hand (declined, and Nicholas Thomas appointed, in his place Septem-
ber 17,1776.)

November 10, 1776 (first met November 12). Served until March 20, 1777.
March 21, Senate adopted a resolution, followed by the House on the 22nd,
dissolving the Council of Safety because the new government was organ-
ized. The Legislature had been in session since February 5. Daniel of St.
Thomas Jenifer, John Hall, George Plater, Brice Thomas, Beale Worthing-
ton, Joseph Nicholson, Charles Graham (declined) James Tilghman (de-
clined), William Rumsey (declined). Thomas Contee (chosen to fill Gra-
ham's place), Samuel Wilson (chosen to fill Tilghman's place), William
Hemsley (chosen to fill Rumsey's place, declined), James Lloyd Chamber-
laine (appointed by Council January 3, 1777, to fill Hemsley's place, de-
clined), Turbutt Wright (appointed by Council February 3, 1777, to fill
Chamberlaine's place).

MEMBERS OF THE PROVINCIAL CONVENTION, AUGUST 14—
NOVEMBER II, 1776, WHICH FRAMED THE FIRST
STATE CONSTITUTION

MATTHEW TILGHMAN, President
GABRIEL DUVALL, Secretary

St. Mary's County—Richard Barnes, Ignatius Fenwick, George Plater,
Jeremiah Jordan.

Kent County—Thomas Ringgold, William Ringgold, Joseph Earle, Thomas
Smyth.

Anne Arundel County—John Hall, Brice T. B. Worthington, 1 Rezin

Hammond, Samuel Chase. 1 Charles Carroll, barrister. 1

1 Resigned Aug. 27, 1776. Worthington and Chase were re-eleted Sept. 10, 1776. Hall
elected in place of Carroll, barrister.