Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 363

Service have desired me to transmit to him by this Convey-
ance a Memorial or State of their Case whereof I take the
Liberty to inclose Your Ldp a Copy & hope you will not dis-
approve of my Complying with those Gentlemen's Request,
since they think they have no other Chance of receiving any
Recompence for their Services. I have also transmitted to
Your Ldp's Secretary to be laid before Your Ldp the Petition
of one Sam^l Osborne for the Remission of a Fine, as the man
hath stated his Case at large & the Justices of his County have
recommended him as a proper Object of Clemency I shall not
trouble Your Ldp with any thing more on the Affair but
remain &c.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Annapolis the 28^th Sept. 1759. transmitted by M^r Duncan
Cambell, Duplicate by Capt Noel.
S^r
Lest M^r Franklin M^r Bacon's Partner by whom I wrote to
you the 13^th of Aug^st & sent Duplicates of the Lett^r which I
addressed to you the 4^th of Iune & 13^th of Iuly last should
fall into the Enemy's Hands I shall herewith send you another
Copy of the Transcript that I brought from England relative
to the Attainder of Robert Talbot together with as particular
a State or Account of Talbot Mannour as I can obtain & also
a Copy of the Steward's Rent Roll which will enable You I
hope to give those Irish Gentlemen who were making Enquiry
about that Tract of Land as much Information concerning it
as you may judge expedient — As I hear that Capt M^cTaggart
by whom I sent a Duplicate of a Lett^r which I wrote to His
Ldp the 16^th of Dec^r last concerning the Roman Catholicks
Behaviour was taken on his Voyage by a French Privateer &
it is possible the Original Letter might have also miscarried,
I shall now send you a Triplicate, which if neither of the
former came to hand you'll be pleased to present to His Ldp.
You will likewise receive a very large Bundle mark't with the
Letter B. which I am desired by the Officers who lately com-
manded the Maryland Troops to transmit together with a
Memorial addressed to M^r Secretary Pitt wherein they have in
a brief manner stated their Case & prayed some Recompence
for their Services during the last Campaign & the preceeding
winter. Their Case is really very hard but whether this is a
proper Step for them to take in order to obtain Relief I can-
not tell, nor do I know whether I am doing a thing that will
not be disagreeable to Yourself in putting these Papers into
your hands, wherefore as I was under a necessity of writing
to M^r Pitt at the time that I transmitted the Officers Memorial