[Sharpe to Pownall.]

To Iohn Pownall Esq^r Sec^y to the Board of Trade 8^th Feb^y
S^r
In Obedience to their Ldps Commands I send you inclosed
particular Answers to the Heads of Enquiry that I was

Annapolis the 8^th of March 1756
Sir
His Lordship was pleased by his Instructions bearing Date
the 22^d of Aug^st to direct me to appoint M^r Young (who by
marrying M^rs Graham is become related to His Lordship) to
the Naval Office of Pocomoke & also to be Surveyor Gen^l of
the Eastern Shore, in this I had anticipated his Lordships
Commands & being desirous to serve M^r Young more par-
ticularly on Account of his Marriage as much as lay in my
Power I had also given him the Disposal of the Sheveralty
of Calvert County by which he receives £50 p Ann. but upon
his Coming to Annapolis to know why he was not also called
to the Council Board agreeable to his Lordships Orders, I
thought my Duty to His Lordship obliged me to advise him
ag^st insisting on that Step till I could have an Opportunity of
writing to His Lordship or Yourself thereon. At the same
time I represented to him that His Lordships Interest & the
present State of the Council absolutely required that some
Person of Abilities & if possible a Lawyer should be first pre-
ferred to that honour, that I daily expected His Lordships
Instructions in Answer to Letters that I had writ on that Sub-
ject, & that if he would for a short time wave his Pretensions
he would seem to consult His Lordships Interest & oblige me,
& that as Nobody was privy to his being nominated by His
Lordship but himself & me, his being not instantly called to
the board could not be looked on by any here as a Neglect of
him. I ventured so far as to tell him who I had recommended