1. Council of Safety Journal, 29 August 1775 to 20 March 1777, Md. Arch. A new Council of Safety had been appointed by the Maryland Convention on January 17, 1776. It consisted of four members from the Western Shore (Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Charles Carroll, barrister, John Hall and Benjamin Rumsey), and three from the Eastern Shore (James Tilghman, Thomas Smyth and Thomas Bedingfield Hands).