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344 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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to Mr Thornton who by His Ldp's Instruction is to have the
next Living that becomes vacant & will be well pleased if by
Mr Bacon's Removal to Frederick St Peters falls to his Lot.
In my Letter dated the 18th of April I told you that I had
wrote to Mr Milligan & advised him of Colo Lloyds Complaint
agst him. he has since sent me two Letters which he received
from Colo Lloyd & by answering which it seems he gave the
Offence, Indeed I must say that those Letters are not the
most polite but will not pretend to determine on them till I can
see Mr Milligan's Answer for which I have applied to Colo
Lloyd & he promised to send it me but I have not yet received
it. In the same Letter I likewise told you that we heard Govr
Denny had at length given his Assent to a Bill for taxing the
Proprietaries Estate in Pensa by the mode for which the As-
sembly had been so long contending. This Account has been
since confirmed to us with these Circumstances that Mr Denny
did it contrary to the Advice of his Council & his Instructions.
I understand that by this Act the Proprietaries are subjected
to the same Taxes which have been laid on the other Estates
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by several Acts that have passed there since the Year 1754 by
which means it is said the Proprietaries will in the 12 years for
which the Act that Mr Denny has now passed is to endure be
obliged to pay the Sum of £72,000 & their Friends are I find
apprehensive that at the next Session Mr Denny will not
scruple to gratify the Assembly with an Excise Bill on any
Terms they shall ask it, or with any other Bill that they may
desire to the Prejudice of the Proprietaries, who will I presume
now at length repent of their having superceeded Mr Morris
on whom they could depend & who in the Opinion of most
people was not treated by them in the most genteel manner.
Since Mr Denny gave his Assent to the abovementioned Bill
Mr Norris the Speaker has published a Pamphlet in Answer
as he says to the Brief State of Pensa (which was said to be
published sometime ago by the Revd Mr Smith) in which
Pamphlet he undertakes to shew that the Assembly have not
been to blame in any of the Disputes which have arisen
between their Governors & them since the Commencement of
Hostilities in America; for a more particular Account I must
beg Leave to refer You to the Book itself which you will
receive together with this Letter. A few Days ago we
received Advice from the Westward that about a week before
as Capt Bullett of the Virga Regimt with a Party of 100 men was
escorting 15 Waggons loaded with Provisions to Pittsburg he
was attacked by a considerable Body of French & Indians
who killed or took 35 of his Party & all the Provisions which I
am afraid the Garrison at Pittsburg could but ill afford to lose,
as I have been informed that not long before the 18th of May
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