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14 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
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if the present Possessors are ejected they must be supplied
with an equal number of Acres in some other part of the
Province, & it woud cause great uneasiness among those
Tenants & not contiguous to manour Lands, I leave to your
Determination whether it will be proper to drop the Affair or
prosecute farther His Ldp's Pretentions — You will find in the
pacquet some Charges on his Ldp for services which were
done before my Arrival but I do'nt choose to order the Agent
to answer the Bills before you acknowledge Allowance of
them & signifie his Ldp's pleasure to have them discharged.
I have received an Answer from Ld Fairfax to the Letter of
which I sent you a Copy He wishes the undertaking success
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& gives his free consent to any persons coming on the north-
ern Neck to make such Discoveries but does not choose to
engage in the affair Himself.
My intent to examine the two Branches of Potowmack I
have hinted to the Govr of Virginia & writ to Colo Cressop to
know whether He will undertake that Business or not, & re-
turn me an accurate Description of their Courses, Rapidity &
Depth & the longitudinal Difference of the places of the
Spring Heads, but I suppose the severity of the Winter will
hinder Him from proceeding on those Enquiries this three or
four Months at least.
Among the Papers you will find an Abstract from a short
Treatise concerning the Boundaries of this Province which is
not yet finished but has been submitted to my perusal by one
Mr Evans from Philadelphia, whether there be any Merit in
proving the propositions proposed in the Abridgment I leave
to your Determination but that He might procure some papers
at New York & elsewhere which He is persuaded will
strengthen his reasoning & assertions I have advanced Him
£30 Currency & given Him hopes on his success & settling in
this Province to expect farther encouragement if his Scheme
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be approved of by his Ldp. There appears to me in his
Treatise one Article worthy observation which He has not
taken notice of in the Abridgment viz that to the time that
tract of Land was enfeoffed to Mr Penn the Duke of York
had held the three lower Counties as an Appendix or appurte-
nance but was afterwards willing for better security to obtain a
Grant of them from the Crown. This grant is dated the 22d of
March in the 35th of Charles the 2d & the year 1682-3 Seven
months after he had granted them to Mr Penn, the settling this
Date of that grant is warranted from the Copy of it in the
Hands of the Assembly in 1707 which Mr Norris in the Preface
to the new Edition of the Pensilvania Votes says is not now
among their Records, 'twas of the private Collection of the
then Speaker David Lloyd & is now in the hands of Joseph
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