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pretty fully convinc'd the Fort wou'd have been built before
this Time; however must look forward & do the best we can ;
when the three Independt Companies arrive, I think we shall
have near 1000 Men, tho' that's much short of what the French
threaten us with.
The Plan of the Fort is not yet drawn, as the Ground is not
fully fix'd on, being left with discretional Power to the Enge-
neer, when done shall send you a Copy of it. I have from an
old Book of Laws, sent you enclos'd a Copy of one relating to
the King's Lands; but no report of the Surveyor thereon, if
any, I fear it was destroy'd when our Capitol was burned.
Lord Howard was not Govr here till 1680 if that, or any Thing
else from this, will be of use to you, I shall be glad to serve
you, & be assur'd I remain with great regard
Yr Excells
most obedt hble Servt
Robt Dinwiddie
P. S. I shall set out for
Winchester about the
12th of this Mo
Govr Sharpe.
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
the second of May 1754.
My Lord
In obedience to your Ldps Instructions I have transmitted
Copies of all the Laws made at a Session of Assembly begun
& held at Annapolis in this Province the 2d of Ocr 1753 &
have fulfilled your Lordsp's pleasure by inclosing therewith a
few Observations for the more easy reference to any thing new
or of an extraordinary nature by any of them enacted. Such
a Bill as your Lordship was pleased to recommend in your
Instructions for the Naturalization of German Protestants im-
porting themselves into this Province was brought into the
Lower House of Assembly in the Octr Session but did not pass
through, however these people suffer no great Inconveniences
from the want of such a Law, as there is an Act of Parliament
in force in England naturalizing all such Foreigners after a few
years Residence in any of His Majesty's Plantations. Advising
with your Lordship's Agent & Judge of the Land Office about
having parcells of Land surveyed in the several Counties &
erected into Mannours I was informed that there is not remain-
ing a Tract of Land (unless one in the Lower part of the
Eastern Shore that I have a prospect of Discovering & the
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Barrens) extensive enough to answer that purpose in any part
of the province, except in Frederick County near the Frontiers,
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