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2. JOHN MORGAN (——), com. Clerk and Sheriff, 23 April
1662.

3. THOMAS VAUGHAN, entered office 17 Nov. 1663.

4. Capt. WILLIAM HEMSLEY (Cath.), com. 29 May 1668 and
again 18 April 1674.

5. THOMAS VAUGHAN, com. 30 June 1674; resigned to be
Sheriff in 1679.

6. THOMAS IMPEY (——), succeeded Vaughan, ——— 1679;
died 9 Oct. 1686.

7. *Col. NICHOLAS LOWE, SR., entered office 18 Jan. 1686/7;
continued by act of the Convention, 4 Sept. 1689; but soon
resigned.

8. JOHN LLEWELLIN of St. Mary's City, succeeded Lowe in
November, 1689; displaced by Secretary Lawrence prior to 15 Oct.
1692.

9. THOMAS GLADMAN, appointed by Lawrence prior to 15 Oct.
1692; the County Court refused to accept him.

10. JOHN VALLIANT, illegally appointed by the County Court
at the same time; obliged to give up his place in 1695/6.

11. THOMAS LAWRENCE, JR. (son of Secretary Lawrence),
com. by his father in or before October, 1694; admitted by the
Court in 1695/6. On 18 March 1698/9 he became Principal
Secretary and appointed Finley to this place.

12. Col. ROBERT FINLEY, appointed by Sec. Lawrence shortly
after 18 March 1698/9. Gov. Blakiston, with whom Finley had
just arrived in Maryland, obtained on 21 July 1699 the Assembly's
consent to his holding office in spite of a law requiring three years
prior residence; Finley died about June, 1714.

13. FOSTER TURBUTT, succeeded Finley prior to 16 June 1714;
died 21 Feb. 1720/1.

14. PHILIP FEDDEMAN, succeeded Turbutt in March, 1720/1.
Resigned in 1726/7; died in Feb., 1734/5.

15. TENCH FRANCIS (son-in-law of Foster Turbutt), gave
bond 11 March 1726/7; in June, 1734, he hired Thomas Bullen
to execute this office at a regular salary; and in 1738 he sold the
office to John Leeds and removed to Philadelphia. He was At-
torney General of Pennsylvania, 1744-52.