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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 451
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As I am given to understand that Colonel Lloyd has expressed
a Desire to have or be allowed the Recommendation of the
several Officers with whom he as Agent is necessarily con-
cerned lest otherwise a Man opposite to him in Sentiments if
not otherwise unfit may be appointed & thereby Your Ldps
Affairs be but ill conducted & as your Ldp is pleased to order
me to pay due Regard to such his Recommendations I cannot
help observing to your Ldp that I have always paid the greatest
Regard to his Advice in the Disposal of such places & that
out of 7 Sheriffs on the Eastern Shore 4 have been named by
himself & the Rest by other Gentn of the Council I hope Colo
Lloyd would not insinuate that I have ever appointed an im-
proper person to an Office with which he has the most dis-
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tant Concern, but to avoid any such Suspicion I shall if it be
agreeable to your Ldp's Sense & Inclination, without the least
Reluctance part with any power of nominating to vacant Offices
as that is a privelege or power which in my Opinion no Gov-
ernor has reason to be very fond of, for my own part I can
assure your Ldp that it has made me many Enemies & that on
Account of the Recommendations that I have been obliged to
accept it has been very rarely in my power to make a Friend
by that means. I have before observed that out of 7 I accepted
Colo Lloyds Recommendation of 4 Sheriffs (who are as it were
the only Officers that I have the Appointment of) I might also
have added that I have never refused but one Person whom
your Ldp's Agent has mentioned to me & that was a Scotch
Factor who brought me an Introductory & Recommendatory
Lett/ from him the Day I arrived in the Province, Accordingly
I accepted the person but when Numbers of the Gentn of the
County hearing what I had done subscribed a Petition &
desired me to gratify them so far as to appoint some more
agreeable Person & one not in desperate Circumstances to be
Sheriff of their County, I writ to Colo Lloyd & desired him
to excuse me from doing a thing so disagreeable to the People
immediately on my Arrival as my Appointing the Person he
recommended would be & with difficulty prevailed on him
to nominate a second & less exceptionable one after he had
refused to give Security for the Behaviour of him whom
he had first recommended. Mr Calvert tells me that in Conse-
quence of a Letter from the Revd Mr Jones Yr Ldp desires to
be certainly informed whether it would not be much for your
Advantage to have the South' Branch of Potowmack determined
to be the Fountain Head of that River; Your Ldp might be
pleased to remember that soon after my Arrival in the Province
I made particular Enquiry concerning that matter & writ to
Lord Fairfax & Goverr Dinwiddie therein lest your Ldp should
have forgot what I writ at that time on the Subject I take the
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