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94 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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thing to trouble your Ldp with at present but a Request that
your Ldp will be pleased to accept of a Pipe of Madeira Wine
herewith sent from your Ldps mot obliged & mot devoted
Servant.
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
2d of Septr 1754. transmitted by Capt. Creagh.
Sr
Herewith you will be pleased to receive Duplicates of all
the Laws which were passed in the two Sessions of Assembly
that were held at Annapolis in Feby & May last & I have also
by this same Conveyance transmitted Copies of all the Laws
being twelve in number which were enacted in the last Session
at Annapolis concluded the 25th of July as every one of them
are only reviving & continuing Acts except that for his
Majestys Service of which I before transmitted a Copy with
some Observations in a Letter thereon; there does not seem
to be any farther room for noticing or remarking upon those
that are now inclosed. The short time that has intervened
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since I writ last, has not afforded new matter for another Lettr
but lest there should seem to be any Contrariety between a
Clause in my last & a Paragraph in my Lettr of Feby I beg
leave to observe that when I intimated in that first Lettr that
the Sum of Money ordered to be sunk by the Law concerning
Ordinaries passed in 1746 might in a year or two be expected
to be discharged by the said Law, I had received such informa-
tion from the Gent" whom I consulted thereon, but in reality
found by the Scrutiny & Examination which the Lower House
have since made & Submitted to me, that the Gentn had been
out three or four years in their Calculation. I have not yet
heard any thing of Mr Copp mentioned in His Ldps Instruc-
tions of January, nor of the Revd Mr Rosse of whom you spake
in your favour of April the 17th Affairs with respect to the
Disturbances on the back of these Provinces are in the same
Situation they were in at the time of my last writing, the
French are strengthening themselves & building several Forts
on Monongahela & Ohio, & we learn they have begun one on
Green Brier River which is actually within Augusta County in
Virginia & is pretty well inhabited by English Settlers. The
French it seems claim to the very Fountain Heads of Monon-
gahela, Youghyoghgyina & all the Streams flowing into Ohio
or Missisippi, so that their Pretensions extend to a great
number of Acres within this Province which I am afraid no
Person will be prevailed on to take up till the French be
obliged to relinquish the Forts they have already built on those
Rivers. Pensilvania will lose a vast quantity of Land if their
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