PROPRIETARY ASSEMBLY OF 1646-1646/47

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, proprietor

Leonard Calvert, governor
Edward Hill, deputy governor 1 (Ds-2)¹

FIRST SESSION: Fall 1646 '

SECOND SESSION December 29, 1646-January 2, 1646/47

UPPER HOUSE ²
John Lewger Thomas Greene Thomas Gerard

LOWER HOUSE³
(No definite record of membership)

¹ The first session of this Assembly, called by Deputy Governor Edward Hill, apparently met in the fall of 1646 follow-
ing Hill's commission in July of that year. The Assembly's legality was later questioned because Hill's appointment was
invalid due to his not being a councilor. The second session, also challenged later because it met under the same sum-
mons from Hill, was chaired by Leonard Calvert, who had returned to Maryland by the late fall of 1646.

² This was the first Assembly to meet in two houses; the division had occurred at least by the second session.

³ The Assembly of 1649 would charge that "the whole house of Commons (two or three only excepted) consisted of
that Rebelled Party and his [Calvert's] Professed Enemies." It is very likely that the membership included the nine men
who swore to the oath of fealty to the proprietary government on January 2, 1646/47 along with Lewger, Gerard, and
Greene, the three known members of the Upper House at the second session. Those men and their probable constituen-
cies were: Francis Gray (St. George's Hundred), John Hampton (probably Kent Isle), John Hatch (St. Mary's Hun-
dred), Francis Pope (probably Newtown Hundred), William Thompson (Newtown Hundred), William Bretton (New-
town Hundred, probably clerk of the Assembly), Nathaniel Pope (St. Mary's Hundred), Thomas Sturman (St.
Michael's Hundred), John Hollis (St. Mary's Hundred). Of these men, at least Sturman, Gray, and Hampton were
"rebels."

PROPRIETAR Y ASSEMBLY OF 1647/48

Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore, proprietor
Thomas Greene, governor

A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ALL FREEMEN

January 7; January 17-March 4, 1647/48

SPECIAL WRIT

Giles Brent, of the Council

		FREEMEN	IN ATTENDANCE
	John Price	Richard Banks	Robert Clarke	George Manners
	Robert Vaughan	Barnaby Jackson	Francis Posey	Robert Percy
	Cuthbert Fenwick	George Saphyr	John Hatch	Margaret Brent 1
	Thomas Bradnox	George Akerick	William Thompson	Nicholas Gwither 2
	Philip Conner	John Medley	John Wyatt	"& divers other
	Thomas Thornborough	Walter Waterlin	Edward Cotten	inhabitants"
	Francis Brookes	Walter Pakes (Peake)	John Halfehead
	Thomas Allen	Edward Packer	William Bretton

			Committee Service
	ACCOUNTS	Price	DEFENSE	Banks
	G. Brent	Saphyr	Bretton	Saphyr
	Vaughan	Jackson	Hatch	Jackson
		Packer

¹ Denied the right to vote by Governor Greene.
² Denied the right to vote when Cuthbert Fenwick claimed that Gwither still owed him service on an indenture.

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