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those who have heretofore had the Care & Management of
these Lands None of whom have recorded or kept Copies of the
Leases that they granted, & as many Tenants have lost their
Leases & know not how their Lands are situated or bounded.
The Surveyors have scarcely any thing to direct them in run-
ning out the Tenements, which by the Platts that have been
already returned me greatly interfere with & intersect each
other.
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Mr Willm Goldsborough whom your Lordship was at my
Instance pleased to honour with a Seat at the Council Board
has been in a very bad State of Health for some time & by
what I can learn is not likely to recover. In Case of His
Decease your Ldp will be pleased to signify who is to succeed
him as Iudge of the Admiralty Court, it is not a place of any
Profit & of very little Trouble but. if your Ldp pleases it would
be much for the Ease of the People that may have Occasion to
apply to him if the Judge be some Gent" that usually resides
at Annapolis. I am &c —
[Sharpe to Calvert]
4th of Feby 1757. transmitted by Capt Thompson
Sir
In my Letter dated the 30th of Novr I intimated to you that
the Earl of Loudoun had advised me of his Intention to send
Seven Companies of the Royal American Regiment to quarter
themselves for the Winter in this Province; That the Men
may be more easily disciplined during the winter & more
readily assembled at Phila in the Spring His Lordship
restrained their Quarters to Kent & Caecil, but as there are
but four small Towns or Villages & scarcely any Publick Houses
in these Counties the Men were put to some Difficulties &
wanted for a time many of the Necessaries & Conveniences
that Soldiers expect to be supplied with when they come
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among the Inhabitants, Upon the Representation of Major
Prevost their Commanding Officer & by the Advice of His
Lordship's Council I summoned the Assembly to meet the
24th of last Month but many of the Families in this Town being
at that time ill of the Small Pox no more than 14 of the Bur-
gesses would venture near us, wherefore after four Days I
thought fit with the Advice of the Gentlemen of the Council to
comply with the Request of the Speaker & those that did
attend by proroguing them to the 10th of next Month when I
hope we shall be pretty free from the Distemper abovemen-
tioned which on Account of their Families being very large is
much dreaded by the People of this Country. The Soldiers
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