MARYLAND MANUAL 497

1689-1690 John Coode

Leader of the Protestant Associators who seized
the government on August 1, 1689.

1690-1692 Nehemiah Blackiston

Appointed President of the Committee for the
Government of Maryland when Coode went to
England.

1692-1693 Sir Lionel Copley

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

1746/7-1762 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