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ginia's Requisition, which I am in some hopes, the laudable &
generous Example of the several neighbouring Colonies will
prompt them to give. I shall have an early opportunity by a
Ship that will depart in 3 weeks or a Month to acquaint your
Ldp with the Event of our meeting, & my performance of some
particulars that were required by the last Letter I was favoured
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with from your Ldp's Secretary. I have taken an Opportunity
since my arrival of visiting Baltimore which indeed has the
Appearance of the most increasing Town in the Province, tho
it scarcely answered the Opinion I had conceived of it: hardly
as yet rivaling Annapolis in number of Buildings or Inhabit-
ants; its Situation as to Pleasantness Air & Prospect is inferior
to that of Annapolis, but if one considers it with respect to
Trade, The extensive Country beyond it leaves no room for
Comparison; were a Few Gentn of fortune to settle there &
encourage the Trade it might soon become a flourishing place
but while few beside the Germans (who are in general Masters
of small Fortunes) build & inhabit there I apprehend it cannot
make any considerable Figure. I am promised as soon as it
can be compleated by a Gentn therein residing a plan of the
Town as it is begun & designed to be perfected, which I hope
to convey your Ldp with my farther Sentiments & a particular
Description of its Site & of the adjacent Country when I again
take the Liberty of assuring your Ldp how much I am your
Ldp's most devoted humble Servt H S.
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[Sharpe to Calvert.]
3d of May 1754. transmitted by Capt: Coxen.
Sir
Had any Opportunity offered within this two Months I should
have sent you before Copies of all the Laws made at a Session
of Assembly begun & held at Annapolis the 2d of Octr 1753
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that Reference might be more easily had to any thing New or
extraordinary by them Enacted I have according to His Ldp's
pleasure now inclosed therewith a few Sheets containing Ob-
servations on several of them according to the Order in which
they follow each other in the Book covered with Marble paper.
Advising with His Ldp's Agent & the 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 a Tract of Land unless one that I have a prospect of
discovering in the lower part of the Eastern Shore & the
Barrens extensive enough to answer that purpose in any part
of the Province except in Frederick County near the Frontiers
& there are two mannours surveyed & reserved in that County
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