PROTESTANT ASSOCIATORS' CONVENTION OF 1689-1692

FIRST SESSION: August 22-September 4, 1689

SECOND SESSION: April 1-4(7), 1690
THIRD SESSION: September 29-October 6, 1690

FOURTH SESSION April 12(?)-25, 1691

FIFTH SESSION: August (?)-September 10, 1691

SIXTH SESSION: April 9, 1692

	ST MARY'S	Nicholas Gassaway (D-6)	Thomas Staley	DORCHESTER
	John Coode 2	Nicholas Greenberry	Thomas Thurston	John Brooke
	Nehemiah Blakiston,	CALVERT	Christopher Gist (D-4)	Henry Trippe
	speaker 4-6	Henry Jowles	TALBOT	Charles Hutchins
	Kenelm Cheseldyne,	Ninian Beale	John Edmundson	Thomas Cooke (S-6)
	speaker 1-2 2	Henry Mitchell	William Sharpe	ST MARY'S CITY
	John Campbell	James Keech	George Robotham,	William Blanckcnstein
	KENT	CHARLES	speaker 3	Gilbert Clarke (S-2)
	William Harris	John Addison	Robert Smith	Robert Mason (E-3) 4
	Michael Miller	John Courts	SOMERSET	CECIL
	Hans Hanson	Henry Hawkins	Francis Jenkins	Charles James
	Thomas Davis	John Stone	David Browne	Edward Jones
	ANNE ARUNDEL 3	BALTIMORE	Robert King 2	William Dare 5
	Thomas Tench	John Thomas	Samuel Hopkins	James Frisby 6
	William Hopkins

			Committee Service
	ACCOUNTS	Blakiston (1)	Courts (1)	Jowles (1)
	Cheseldyne(1) Coode (1)	Jowles(1) Clarke (1)	SECRECY Blakiston (1)	Clarke (1) "& one or two more"
		Addison (1)

		Grand	Committee of Twenty6
	Coode, president	Greenberry	Thomas	King
	Cheseldyne	Jowles	Staley	Brooke
	Blakiston	Beale	Robotham	Trippe
	Miller	Addison	Edmundson	Jones
	Harris	Courts	Browne	James
	Gassaway

¹ Except for a portion of the first session, no journal for this revolutionary convention survives. Unless otherwise noted,
membership is derived from the signatures of delegates on "The Address of the Representatives of their Majestys Sub-
jects in the Province of Maryland Assembled," dated September 4, 1689, Colonial Office Papers 5/719, part 1, no. 1
(Public Record Office, London). For the dates of individual sessions and identification of speakers, see William Hand
Browne et al. eds., Archives of Maryland 72 vols, to date (Baltimore, 1883-), 8:117, 172, 207, 242-50, 260; ibid.,
13:247; Thomas Bacon, Laws of Maryland with Proper Indexes (Annapolis, 1765), note after laws of 1688; Charles
County Court and Land Record, R no. 1, ff. 3, 129, 189, 275; Talbot County Land Record, NN no. 6, f. 317; Edmund
B. O'Callaghan, ed., The Documentary History of the State of New York 4 vols. (Albany, 1849-51), 2.117-18, 126-27;
Edmund B. O'Callaghan, ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 15 vols. (Albany,
1853-87),3::788-89.

² Coode and Cheseldyne, who went to England in the late summer of 1690 to defend the revolution they had led, did
not serve in subsequent sessions, and their replacements, if elected, are unknown. Robert King of Somerset County
may also have accompanied them.

³ Anne Arundel County did not send delegates to the first session. These four men were probably elected to the second
session, when Gassaway and Greenberry were named to the Grand Committee of Twenty. Tench and Hopkins were
definitely sitting by the fourth session.

⁴ Elected to replace Gilbert Clarke, who resigned upon becoming sheriff prior to the second session. Mason was defi-
nitely sitting by the fourth session and was probably a member by the third meeting.

⁵ A contemporary account of the first session reported that only two delegates participated from Cecil County, but the
signatures of four delegates were affixed to the September 4, 1689, address from the Assembly. There is no other record
of service for William Dare and James Frisby, who are known later to have opposed the government of the Protestant
Associators, and probably declined to serve further.

⁶ The second session appointed this group as an interim executive agency. Nehemiah Blakiston succeeded Coode as
president by September 1690.

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