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who seemed determined to defend his Title till the Trial
Court & then he offered Colo Lloyd £325 Currency for them
rather than run the Risk of a Trial which offer Colo Lloyd
accepted. But to return to the Agreement which had been
made by Mr Sullivan, as in making it he had acted without
sufficient Authority, it was not binding on His Ldp or his
Agent unless they chose it & therefore no harm was done, &
I have not upon the most strict Enquiry found any Person
that thinks Sullivan had the least Intention to defraud the
Proprietary of any thing when he made the abovementioned
Agreement with Vining but on the contrary it is the opinion
of all that know him & that were acquainted with the Affair
that he intended to do what was in his Opinion best & most
for the Interest of His Ldp & what in fact he would have
done had the Affair been entirely his own; & after all I ques-
tion whether by the time that the Lawyers who were con-
cerned for His Ldp are satisfied he will be so considerable a
Gainer as Colo Lloyd seems to intimate, but tho that should
be the Case yet as Mr Sullivan does not seem to have acted
with an ill Intention, & since be his Intention what it would
Colo Lloyd could not be bound by any Act which the Sheriff
had presumed to do without Authority it was hardly worth
Colo Lloyds while I think to trouble His Ldp about the Affair
unless he thereby intended to make a great merit of having
done what was his Duty or what in that particular Case he
thought was most for His Ldp's Interest. But notwith-
standing I have said so much in excuse for Mr Sullivan's
Behaviour on that occasion I can assure you he is not one of
the Men that I shall ever think of Serving; his Conduct in the
Lower House has been far from agreeable, but with regard
to that I think he differs very little from all the Persons that
were Sheriffs during Mr Ogles & Mr Taskers Administration,
& since my Subject naturally leads me to it, as well as the
Doubt you express in Your Letter about Colo Lloyds political
Principles I must now take the Liberty to say more to you on
that Subject than I have yet chose to do. how he behaved while
he was a member of the Lower House the Journalls of that
House will always shew & I think not much to his honour or Ad-
vantage, there is scarcely a Gentleman in the Province at this
time who has Connections with so many of the principal Male-
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contents as he has; however strange it might appear to You, no
sooner was Mr Edward Tilghman deprived of the Office that
he held under his Ldp & thereupon commenced a most
flaming Patriot but Colo Lloyd courted his Friendship,
Mr Robt Lloyd, Mr Dorsey & Mr Harris are his Relations or
particular Friends & Dependants, nay his Brother Richd for
whom he solicited a Seat at the Council has at late Elections
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