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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 181
 

 

vouchsafe to put in me be pleased to accept my grateful thanks
& rest assured that I will by the most exact & punctual Com-
pliance with Your Expectations endeavour to approve myself
worthy of it. Your Assurance to render my Administration as
easy as possible sensibly affects me & I beg leave to repeat on
my part the promise that I made my Lord that no views of
Interest, no prejudice no Affection or Friendships shall divest
me at any time from pursuing & advising whatever I think the
most likely means to promote his Ldp's Interest. This led me
to recommend Mr Dulany Mr Goldsborough & Mr Tilghman to
His Ldp's favourable Notice, having never heard the least thing
objected to either of these Gentlemen's Characters I was
persuaded they would not be disapproved of on that Acco' &
if you knew how unaccustomed or how averse the present
members (except perhaps Mr Thomas) were to writing or
communicating their thoughts to the lower House by Message
on any Occasion you would I am persuaded think with me
that it is highly requisite the vacancies in his Ldp's Council
should be supplied with Gentn of Abilities who have been used
to argue or write & would be capable of supporting his Ldp's
Rights & prerogatives whenever a Levelling House of
Burgesses should be inclined to attack them. You know Sir
that few People will choose to engage in a Dispute with those
whose superiour Capacity they are sensible of & have expe-
rienced this Consideration is an Inducement to my giving
Gentlen of Abilities the preference in my Recommendation of
Persons for His Ldp's Council, if such can be found dis-
tinguished at the same time for their Probity in their respective
Neighbourhoods, in case His Ldp should be unwilling to
advance either of the abovenamed Gentn I have also named
two others as you will please to observe in my other Letter.
Application you are pleased to tell me has been made in favour
of Mr Cha Goldsborough & Mr Richd Lloyd with the past Con-
duct of the first you are already acquainted & I must confess I
should be sorry to see him in the Station to which he Aspires
tho he should become less a favourer of popular measures
than he has hitherto been & I apprehend because I have heard
them intimate as much that such a preference would give
no small uneasiness to most of the other Members. Out of
Respect & Regard for Coll. Lloyd I have already commis-
sioned Mr Richd Lloyd to be a provincial Magistrate but I should be very glad he was not so earnestly recommended to
Letter Bk. I.

be of his Ldp's Council. As a Gentleman I esteem him but I
have before ventured to tell you that to be free from every
fault or to be a worthy man & good Companion is not in my
opinion sufficient at this time to recommend a Person to
a Seat at the Council Board. You seem to be of Opinion that 		p. 377
 

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