MARYLAND IN CONGRESS

DELEGATES TO THE COLONIAL CONGRESS, 1765
William Murdock Thomas Ringgold Edward Tilghman

SIGNERS OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776
Samuel Chase William Paca Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Thomas Stone

SIGNERS OF ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, 1781
John Hanson Daniel Carroll

SIGNERS OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, 1787
James McHenry Daniel Carroll Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION OF MARYLAND WHICH
RATIFIED THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION,
APRIL 21-29,1788 1

George Plater, President
William Harwood, Secretary

Annapolis—Nicholas Carroll, Alexander Contee Hanson.
Baltimore Town—James McHenry, John Coulter.
Anne Arundel County—Jeremiah T. Chase, Samuel Chase, John F.

Mercer, Benjamin Harrison.
St. Mary's County—George Plater, Richard Barnes, Charles Chilton,

Nicholas L. Sewell.
Kent County—William Tilghman, Donaldson Yeates, Isaac Perkins,

William Granger.
Calvert County—Joseph Wilkinson, Charles Graham, Walter Smith,

John Chesley, Jr.
Charles County—Zephaniah Turner, Gustavus R. Brown, Michael J.

Stone, John Parnham.
Somerset County—George Gale, John Stewart, John Gale, Henry

Waggaman.
Talbot County—Robert Goldsborough, Jr., Edward Lloyd, John

Stevens, Jeremiah Banning.
Dorchester County—Robert Goldsborough, Sr., Nicholas Hammond,

James Shaw, Daniel Sulivane.

Baltimore County—Charles Ridgely, Charles Ridgely of William, Ed-
ward Cockey, Nathan Cromwell.
Cecil County—Henry Hollingsworth, James G. Heron, Joseph Gilpin,

William Evans.
Prince George's County—Fielder Bowie, George Digges, Osborne

Sprigg, Benjamin Hall.

Queen Anne's County—James Tilghman, III, James Hollyday, Wil-
liam Hemsley, John Seney.
Worcester County—John Done, Peter Chaille, William Morris, James

Martin.
Frederick County—Thomas Johnson, Thomas Sim Lee, Richard Potts,

Abraham Faw.
Harford County—Luther Martin, William Paca, William Pinkney,

John Love.

1 The names of the Members of the Convention are taken from Philip A. Crowl,
Maryland During and After the Revolution (The Johns Hopkins University Studies
in Historical and Political Science, LX, Baltimore, 1942) 165-68.