|
|
192 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
|
Letter Bk. I.
*
|
mitted to them: Cresap had bought & laid in a large Quantity
of Provision & many necessaries for the Troops by my Order,
some were paid for & others not, Vouchers for his Delivery
of these things to the Commissary of Stores who attends the
Troops could not be sent because the Commissary had not yet
received them, the Salt particularly which he charges Carriage
of from Bladensburg was bought by Doctor Ross at my Order,
whose bill not being sent in to the Assembly at that time they
suspected Cresap's Accots falsified where it really did not, indeed
I cannot as yet determine myself about Cresaps Conduct but
am apt to think that they will be glad to find him tripping if
they can because he has behaved himself on all Occasions as a
good Servant to the Govt I cannot at this place help observing
to you that in the Bill which they had framed for regulating the
Rates of Carriages &c they had allowed the Owners of Wag-
gons 20 p Ct more for Carriage p mile than Cresap against
whose Accots they had been cavilling had actually charged. I
make no doubt but they will be also well satisfied with the
Officers Recruiting Accots when they have them properly stated
& laid before them, as I observe the Enlisting 58 Men mostly
on the Eastern Shore bringing them over the Bay at 5/ a head
& conveying them to the place of Rendezvous at Frederick
on an Average cost for each about £ 3. 6 Curry only when the
sole Charges of recruiting on former Occasions amounted to
£5 for every Man. I cannot at present pretend to give my
Opinion on the Accots more than the Committee ought to
have done but as I see their Report is entered in the written
Journal of the Lower House I could not but make a Remark
or two thereon, having inclosed to you the Bill framed for
His Majesty's Service & that to prevent the Importation of
|
p. 120
|
Papists being entered in the lournal I have nothing farther to
observe thereon as the Titles of the Acts that were passed
distinctly declare what is the Substance of each Act & as none
of them are of a particular & extraordinary Nature & will be
transmitted under the great Seal by the first Opportunity. In
obedience to His Ldp's former Instructions I had ordered a very
exact Accot of the Inhabitants of every Denomination in his
Ldp's Province to be taken by the respective Constables but I
cannot receive a Return from them before next August or
Sept' You will be pleased to recur to my Letter of the 12th
of last August in which I submitted what occurred to me as
the most likely means for his Ldp to get Quit- Rent paid him
for such Surplus Lands as are at present held & enjoyed by
many persons under old patents for which His Ldp receives no
Acknowledgment; Colo Lloyd tells me he has considered of
the proposal I then offered to you & says his Sentiments are
quite similar to my own thereon, & that he knows no way so
|
|
 |
