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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 285
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ance, you appear to me to be a very clever man for business
and I promised myself a great deal of pleasure in having cul-
tivated an acquaintance with you, but you seem to me to
make a mystery and secret of this Affair, pray candidly tell
me the reason of your refusing to shew me all Mr Kilbys last
Letter to you, for I will lay you a Wager that when we get to
N York Mr Kilby will shew it to me, men of his Character
never give any thing under their hands, but what every body
who have any concern in it may see, and you will be convinced
in the end, that notwithstanding you have been so much
alarmed that you will be so far from being blamed, that you
will have an oppertunity of doing a good natured thing by
introducing me to Mr Kilby, in return I will continue to give
you all the information relating to provision, which my
acquaintance with the back woods enable me to do, and
which at present you have a strong connection with, he
replied that there were some things in the Letter which he
thought was not proper to be communicated to me and looked
very serious, well says I, Mr Howell do you not think that
your talking and acting in this manner is not enough to raise
a Suspicion in me, that Mr Kilby has some way repented of
the promise he made to Governor Sharpe in his Letter of the
19th of June, and wants to leave it with you to get him off
from that promise, tho I can never believe it possible 'till I
hear what Mr Kilby himself says, and more particularly when
I reflect on the high character Mr Peters gives me of him, but
pray tell me now candidly would you have even paid me the
£1500, if you had received that Letter from Mr Kilby before
you paid me the money, as I saw Mr Howel was not inclinable
to give me an answer, I endeavoured to turn the conversation
by saying, that I would say no more about it 'till we should
see Mr Kilby, that I could with half an Eye discover that he
had taken the affair in a wrong light, and that he intended to
do a peice of Service to the General and Mr Kilby which I
was persuaded they did not expect, about this time the tea
things were carryed away, and I observed to him that I was
only taking up his time which might be better employed, and
asked him if he could give any guess when he would be ready
but if he could not then tell me, I had for my part nothing to
do but wait on him, and got up to come away, he then told
me but with a great deal of Confusion that he never intended
to go to N York and that he was advised by his Friends to
take other Steps with me, and immediately opened the Room
Door and called to the under sheriff, who it seems had been
standing all the while in the passage to come in and do his
duty, he stept into the Room and arrested me, I asked him
for a Sight of the Writ and Saw it was for 4950, I turned to
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