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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 87
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Business could have permitted his absence on so distant Service
seems to be: But to be as secure as possible against any
Deceit, I thought proper to order him to attest whatever could
be collected from the said Records after the Manner you have
I hope e'er this seen, wch I thought would deprive him of the
power of falsifying, while the Interpreter a Man of good
Character at New York was also to authenticate the quotations
in the same manner. Upon this Service much more money
than I expected would be requisite was expended for the most
in discharging the Fees of the Office & the Expence of the
Interpreter; but the Conclusion of your Paragraph on advanc-
ing Money for the future I shall well observe & be always
careful how I subject His Ldp to any Expences without having
first received his permission or Order. — I have not by me a
Copy of that Abstract; but if I well remember that Hypothesis
of his "that Ld Baltimore & Mess" Penns at the time of
executing the Articles, considered the South Boundary of Pen-
silvania by the Patent to be in the Latitude 39o " is laid down
in order to draw therefrom a Conclusion in His Ldp's favour
concerning a Tract of Land west of the Fountain of Potowmack
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& I apprehend that He might have been led to think what he
there supposes, from that Clause in the Tenth Section of the
Articles of Agreement, where speaking of the reciprocal Ces-
sions that were to be made; the Articles say "& on the other
hand The sd I Penn &c do by these presents for ever renounce
& quit Claim unto the sd Charles Ld Baltimore &c all preten-
sions to the Province of Maryland to be so bounded as afore-
said viz on the Northward by a due East & West Line ran 15
Miles South of Philadelphia west to the west Extremity of the
Pensilvania Territories" which Line would terminate near Ohio
somewhere about the Spot where the French have built their
Fort on Monongahela as I have endeavoured to represent by
the Sketch of that Country herewith inclosed. I do not submit
this as countenancing Evans in the least, but to introduce an
Observation which I beg leave as from myself to offer to your
notice.
If the Penns claimed by their Patent any Land South of the
Degree Forty, which we are too sensible they have done even
where that Land was vested in Ld Baltimore by a prior Patent,
what hinders their claim to that Tract of Land (represented in
the Sketch by the shade marked A) which was not disposed of
by his Majesty before the Date of their Patent; & this indeed
they do claim even away to Ohio, but if they oblige His Ldp
to abide by the Articles of Agreement; or upon any new
Agreement I think His Ldp may by the Agreement have some
pretensions to that no invaluable Country, as I apprehend that
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