List of delegates to the Maryland Constitutional Convention (1776)
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The final session of the revolutionary Annapolis Convention in 1776 served as Maryland's first constitutional convention. They drafted a declaration of rights and a constitution for the state. This list of delegates reports the men who made up the convention, and the counties or towns they represented. Delegates were the following individuals.*[http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/html/conv1776.html Historical List: Constitutional Convention, 1776]". Archives of Maryland.
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Name
!County |
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John Archer |
Richard Barnes |
William Bayly Jr.
|Frederick County{{efn|name=a}} |
Samuel Beall
|Frederick County |
Smith Bishop |
Jacob Bond
|Harford County |
Walter Bowie |
Benjamin Brevard |
William Bruff |
Charles Carroll |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton |
Peter Chaille
|Worcester County |
James Lloyd Chamberlaine |
Jeremiah Townley Chase |
Samuel Chase
|Anne Arundel County |
Thomas Cockey Deye |
John Dent |
Henry Dickinson |
Joseph Earle |
Christopher Edelen
|Frederick County |
Pollard Edmondson
|Talbot County |
John Ennalls |
Joseph Ennalls
|Dorchester County |
Patrick Ewing
|Cecil County |
Ignatius Fenwick
|St. Mary's County |
Adam Fischer
|Frederick County |
William Fitzhugh |
John Gibson
|Talbot County |
Joseph Gilpin
|Cecil County |
Robert Goldsborough
|Dorchester County |
Charles Grahame
|Calvert County |
Benjamin Hall
|Prince George's County |
John Hall
|Anne Arundel County |
Samuel Handy
|Worcester County |
Rezin Hammond
|Anne Arundel County |
Robert Townshend Hooe
|Charles County |
William Horsey |
Samuel Hughes
|Frederick County |
Thomas Johnson
|Caroline County |
Jeremiah Jordan
|St. Mary's County |
James Kent
|Queen Anne's County |
Thomas Sim Lee
|Prince George's County |
John Love
|Harford County |
Henry Lowes
|Somerset County |
Benjamin Mackall IV
|Calvert County |
John MacKall
|Calvert County |
Luke Marbury
|Prince George's County |
Richard Mason
|Caroline County |
Josiah E. Mitchell
|Worcester County |
James Murray
|Dorchester County |
William Paca
|Annapolis |
John Parnham
|Charles County |
George Plater
|St. Mary's County |
Nathaniel Potter
|Caroline County |
John Purnell Robins
|Worcester County |
William Richardson
|Caroline County |
Charles Ridgely
|Baltimore County |
Thomas Ringgold V
|Kent County |
William Ringgold
|Kent County |
Henry Schnebeley
|Frederick County |
George Scott
|Somerset County |
Gustavus Scott
|Somerset County |
Thomas Semmens
|Charles County |
Peter Shepherd
|Baltimore County |
Upton Sheredine
|Frederick County |
David Shriver
|Frederick County |
David Smith
|Cecil County |
John Smith
|Baltimore Town |
Thomas Smyth
|Kent County |
John Stevenson
|Baltimore County |
Osborn Sprigg
|Prince George's County |
John Stull
|Frederick County |
Matthew Tilghman, Chairman
|Talbot County |
Elisha Williams
|Frederick County{{efn|name=a}} |
Jonathan Willson
|Frederick County{{efn|name=a}} |
Henry Wilson Jr.
|Harford County |
Thomas Sprigg Wootton
|Frederick County{{efn|name=a|Montgomery County was formed from part of Frederick County on October 1, 1776. Bayly, Williams, Willson, and Wootten represented Montgomery County after its formation.Boyd, T.H.S. (1879). The History of Montgomery County, Maryland from Its Earliest Settlement in 1650 to 1879. Clarksburg, Maryland: Regional Publishing Company. p. 54. {{ISBN|0-8063-7954-5}}.}} |
Brice T. B. Worthington
|Anne Arundel County |
Solomon Wright
|Queen Anne's County |
Turbutt Wright
|Queen Anne's County |