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Maryland Manual, 1951-52
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 MARYLAND MANUAL 415
1693 Sir Thomas Lawrence
Elected Governor after death of Copley, but had
served only a week or two when Sir Edmund
Andros arrived in Maryland to assume control.
1693 Sir Edmund Andros
Remained in Maryland about ten days before re-
turning to Virginia.
1693-1694 Colonel Nicholas Greenberry
Appointed President of the Council by Andros.
1694 Sir Edmund Andros
Remained in Maryland about a week.
1694 Sir Thomas Lawrence
Appointed President of the Council by Andros.
1694-1698/9 Sir Francis Nicholson
1698/9-1702 Colonel Nathaniel Blackiston
1702-1704 Thomas Tench
Appointed President of the Council by Blackiston.
1704-1709 Colonel John Seymour
170&-1714 Major General Edward Lloyd
Elected President of the Council when Colonel
Francis Jenkins, who was senior member of the
Council and thus entitled to succeed Seymour,
failed to assert his right promptly.
1714-1720 John Hart
1720 Thomas Brooke
Became President of the Council by virtue of his
seniority when Hart returned to England.
1720-1727 Charles Calvert
1727-1731 Benedict Leonard Calvert
1731-1732 Samuel Ogle
1732-1733 Charles Calvert, Lord Proprietary
1733-1742 Samuel Ogle
1742-1746/7 Thomas Bladen
1746/7-1752 Samuel Ogle
17R2-1753

1763-1769
1769-1776

Benjamin Tasker
Became President of the Council upon the death
of Governor Ogle.
Horatio Sharpe

Robert Eden
Eden was in England from May to November 1774,
during which time Richard Lee, President of the
Council, governed the Province. Lee also gov-
erned the Province briefly in 1776 during the inter-
val between the departure of Eden and the assump-
tion of the government by the Convention.

  REVOLUTIONARY INTERREGNUM

During the years 1774 through 1776 more and more of the powers
of government came to be exercised by popular bodies though the
authority of the Governor was still acknowledged until Eden's depar-
ture. The Conventions were composed of delegates from each county
elected by the freemen of the Province in much the same manner as
the House of Delegates. It was inconvenient for so large a. group

 

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