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40 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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for People of the province to suppose he has an Influence with
my Ld or his Governor when he has none I beg leave to
observe that for the same reason he must insist on every one
of his Correspondents being provided for or else the person
that is not will take offence at seeing others preferred to him
& will no longer ship Tobo to a Mercht by whom he thinks
himself neglected; & after all does a Maryland Mercht depend
on his Interest with His Ldp or his Goverr for Increase of Busi-
ness? the Success of Mr Russel Mr Buchanan Mr Anderson
& several others shews that he does not; & I am persuaded
that Mr Hanbury cannot justly attribute the Decrease of the
Number of his Consigners to any such Cause as You mention.
I am glad that His Ldp has been pleased to appoint Mr
Dulany one of the Council & hope he will be able to do Ser-
vice in that Character, he has been for some time exceedingly
ill of a Nervous Fever which endangered his Life but he is
now on the Recovery I have signified to him that His Ldp
has been pleased to appoint him & as soon as a Council is
held & he can attend I will have him qualified agreeable to
His Ldp's Instructions & you may be assured that no En-
deavours of mine shall be wanting to convince him that you
have a sincere Regard for him. I did not intend to advise
you to countermand the order that you had entered in favour
of Mr Dennis Dulany for the Clerkship of Kent County but
as I did not know but Mr Young might apply for that office
when it should become vacant I thought it my Duty to
remind you of your order lest otherwise Mr Young should
have sollicited you & obtained a promise, I have nothing
to say about that Gentleman that I have not already men-
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tioned, I beleive he is honest but I do assure you that
it cannot be for His Ldp's Interest to prefer him to
a Seat at the Council Board neither do I beleive that he
now expects one there. I never wanted Inclination to serve
him & have done so as far as I thought was right or as he
could expect, he has the Profits of the Naval Office of Poco-
moke & is Surveyor General of the Eastern Shore, You
know what the Profits of these two places amount to & are
the best Judge whether as Mrs Young has left no Children by
him his Income is sufficient. I once submitted a Proposal that
Mr Darnal should exchange Naval Offices with him but as
Mr Darnal will not choose to do so & I have not power to
make the Alteration without his Consent my proposition
must of Course fall. Since I writ to you in July last Mr Ross
has brought me the Remarks that you made on the Rent
Rolls & sent to Colo Lloyd tho when I writ to him at that
time he gave me the Answer that I noted to you in my above-
mentioned Letter, I observe that His Ldp seems to insist on
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