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First Session: May 10, 1692 - June 9, 1692
Second Session: September 20, 1693 - September 26, 1693Source:
Edward C. Papenfuse, et al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Vols. 1&2. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1979, 1985.
| Upper House | |
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| Thomas Lawrence1
Henry Jowles, ds-22 Nehmeiah Blackiston Nicholas Greenberry Charles Hutchins George Robotham |
David Browne Thomas Tench John Addison John Courts Thomas Brooke James Frisby, dns, ds-23 |
| Lower House | |||
| Anne Arundel County
John Hammond Henry Ridgeley James Saunders John Dorsey |
Baltimore County
George Ashman Edward Boothby Francis Watkins Thomas Staley |
Calvert County
Thomas Greenfield Thomas Tasker Henry Mitchell John Bigger |
Cecil County
William Dare, ds-14 St. Leger Codd, ds-14 Edward Jones4 George Warner, ds-14 James Wroth, e-1 Thomas Theakston, e-1 Robert Cooke, e-1 |
| Charles County
William Dent Henry Hawkins James Smallwood Philip Hoskins |
Dorchester County
Henry Trippe John Brooke, d-2 Thomas Ennalls Edward Pinder, d-2 |
Kent County
William Harris Hans Hanson Elias King Samuel Wheeler |
St. Mary's City
Edward Wynn, d-2 Robert Mason, s-2 |
| St. Mary's County
Kenelm Cheseldyne, spkr John Campbell Philip Clarke John Watson |
Somerset County
William Whittington John Huett, ds-14 Thomas Everden, ds-14 John Goddin, ds-14 Roger Woolford, e-1 John Bozman, e-1 Lazarus Maddox, e-1 |
Talbot County
Robert Smith William Finney Hugh Sherwood John Edmundson, ds-14 Thomas Robins, e-1 |
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1. Sir Thomas Lawrence, the provincial secretary, had not arrived in Maryland at the time of the first session. In March of 1693, approximately six months after Lawrence's arrival, Governor Copley suspended him from the Council and imprisoned him for alleged opposition to the royal government in a power struggle between the two men. The Lower House ordered Lawrence's release from prison on September 22, 1693. It is uncertain who had been serving as acting governor in the power struggle since Copley's death on September 12, 1693, but Lawrence now resumed his position as senior councillor and presided in the Upper House until the arrival of Gov. Edmund Andros from Virginia on September 26. Andros claimed succession by virtue of his commission and served as acting governor through the remainder of this session. Andros's right to that post was later successfully challenged by Lawrence.
2. Suspended from the Council by Governor Copley in November 1692 for alleged improper behavior in accepting a clerkship, and did not sit in the second session.
3. Suspended from the Council by Governor Copley on July 9, 1692, for his alleged opposition to the government of the Protestant Associators and to the new royal government. Frisby had not attended the first session.
4. Edmundson, Everden, Goddin, and Warner were discharged because as Quakers they were unable to subscribe to the oaths required of delegates. Huett, as a minister and "man in sacred orders," was ruled ineligible by English law to sit in the Assembly. The Lower House voted to discharge Codd for his opposition to the revolution and Protestant Associators' government. Dare, under suspicion for similar opposition, refused to provide security for his good behavior and was not seated. Jones, also suspected of opposition to the Protestant Associators' government, gave security and held his seat.
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