6. Clerks of Counties

The counties appear in the order of their establishment. Except where
otherwise indicated these clerks resided in their counties and were Protestants
born of Protestant connections. After 1667 County Clerks were appointed by
the Secretary in Maryland. The Constitution of 1776 gave their appointment
to the several county courts. These lists are compiled from the Archives of
Maryland and the county land records and court proceedings. Specific source
citations are given for the clerks of St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, for the
colonial records of these two counties have burned.

a. Clerk of St. Mary's County.

1. Roger Isham (——); com. 10 May 1658 (AM, XLI, 89).

2. Walter Hall (——), com. 14 June 1661 and 19 Aug. 1668 (AM,
III, 423; V. 33), Resigned in 1673/4 and died in Nov. 1678.

3. Edward Clarke (Cath.), com. 27 March 1674 (AM, XV, 34) died about
February, 1676/7.

4. John Manley (——), succeeded Clarke about February, 1676/7 (Prov.
Ct. Rec., 1, WRC #1, f. 127).

5. *Thomas Grunwin (Cath. ?), succeeded Manley shortly before September,
1680 (Prov. Ct. Judgements, 1. 1, f. 339). Resigned to be Clerk of the
Secretary's Office.

6. Thomas Impey of Talbot County (—), succeeded Grunwin in 1683/4.

(Ibid., 1. 3, f, 51; AM, XVII, 229).

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