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1678/9-1684. Charles Calvert, Lord Proprietary.
Calvert was definitely back in the province
by January 1678/9, perhaps earlier, but he
appears to have permitted Notley to retain
the title of governor until his death in April
1679.
1684-1688. Council of Deputy Governors.
Benedict Leonard Calvert, infant son of the
Lord Proprietary, was commissioned governor,
but the duties were actually performed by the
deputies. The deputies named in the commis-
sion were George Talbot, Thomas Tailler,
Colonel Vincent Lowe, Colonel William Ste-
vens. Colonel William Burgess, Major Nicholas
Sewall, and John Damall. Most of them served
the entire period indicated, but there were a
few changes.
1688-1689. William Joseph. Named president of
the Council of Deputies in a commission from
the Lord Proprietary.
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 Govern-
ment of Maryland when Coode went to En-
gland.
1692-1693. Sir Lionel Copley.
1693. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Elected governor
after the death of Copley, but had served only
a week or two when Sir Edmund Andros ar-
rived in Maryland to assume control of the
government.
1693. Sir Edmund Andros. Remained in Mary-
land about ten days before returning to Vir-
ginia.
1693-1694. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry.
Appointed president of the Council by Andros.
1694. Sir Edmund Andros. Remained in Mary-
land 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.

Principal Officers of Maryland
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.
1714-1715. John Hart.
1715-1720. John Hart. Continued to serve as
governor after control of the province was re-
turned to Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, a
professed Protestant.
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 Biaden.
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 governed the
province briefly in 1776 during the interval be-
tween the departure of Eden and the assumption
of the government by the Convention.
REVOLUTIONARY INTERREGNUM
During the years 1774-1776, the powers of
government increasingly came to be exercised by
extra legal assemblies. In all there were nine
meetings of six appointed or duly elected pro-
vincial conventions. Apparently neither contem-
poraries nor subsequent publishers of the extant
proceedings were certain how to differentiate
separately elected and self-contained conventions
from those sessions that were merely a continua-
tion of an adjourned meeting. This confusion