governor from June to October 1676, but
actually the province was governed by the
deputy governors.

1676-1679. Thomas Notley. Succeeded Wharton
as deputy governor and later, in October 1676,
was commissioned governor by the Lord
Proprietary.

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
commission were George Talbot, Thomas
Tailler, Colonel Vincent Lowe, Colonel William
Stevens, Colonel William Burgess, Major
Nicholas Sewall, and John Darnall. 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.

1691-1692. 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 the death of Copley, but had served only a
week or two when Sir Edmund Andros arrived
in Maryland to assume control of the
government.

1693. Sir Edmund Andros. Remained in
Maryland about ten days before returning 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.

1714-1715. John Hart.

1715-1720. John Hart. Continued to serve as
governor after control of the province was
returned 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.

1721-1727. 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 governed the
province briefly in 1776 during the interval
between the departure of Eden and the
assumption of the government by the
Convention.

REVOLUTIONARY INTERREGNUM

During the years 1774-1776, the powers of gov-
ernment increasingly came to be exercised by ex-
tralegal assemblies. In all there were nine meet-
ings of six appointed or duly elected provincial
conventions. Apparently neither contemporaries
nor subsequent publishers of the extant proceed-
ings were certain how to differentiate separately