MARYLAND MANUAL 485

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

1709-1714

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

1752-1753

Benjamin Tasker

Became President of the Council upon the death

of Governor Ogle.

1753-1769

Horatio Sharpe

1769-1776

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.