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give the Surveyor of that County Orders to proceed accord-
ingly. When Mr Barroll delivered me Your Letter of the 17th
of March he told me that His unkle Mr Jones was willing to
resign one of the Parishes he holds (for his Living was divided
some years ago into two by Act of Assembly) in his Favour
immediately, to which I answered that when Mr Jones should
signify as much to me by Letter I should not hesitate to induct
him agreeable to His Ldp's Instructions. When I declined
giving that Mr Mather of Pensilvania who you say is gone to
Ireland a Recommendatory Letter to His Ldp or Yourself I
did it upon a Supposition that His Ldp was not fond of giving
what the Clergy call Titles or Promises of Preferment to any
Persons of whose Attachment he was not well satisfied & as
this Gentleman came from Pensilvania & will I apprehend be
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apt to think himself less obliged to His Ldp than to His
Friends in Philaa who obtained Colo Tasker's Letter to you in
his favour I wish His Ldp had not given him an absolute
Promise till he had been tried a while & proved for I have
been told that when he first came into this Province with a
View to get a Testimonium from three of the Clergy he
entered into a Contract to attend the Cecil County School in
the Capacity of a Master but as soon as he found he could
obtain the Testimonium he wanted he signified to the Visitors
that he should not stay with them till the End of the Term for
which he had (as they say) engaged. The Journal of the
Commissioners that attended when the East & West Line was
run from Fenwix's Island to Chesopeak Bay having been at
length found in the hands of one Mr Johnson of Annapolis
I now transmit you a Copy of it together with a printed Copy
of the Journal of the Proceedings in the Lower House of
Assembly during the last Session. I presume you will long
before this reaches you have heard of the Enemy's miscarriage
in the Attempt they made this Spring to recover Quebec,
I heartily congratulate you on the promising Prospect this
Event hath afforded us as well as on the agreeable Intelligence
from So Carolina which is contained in the inclosed Gazette &
am with great Regard &ca
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[Sharpe to Wm. Sharpe.]
Belair in Maryland the 8th Iuly 1760.
Dr Br
Together with your Letter dated the 8th of March which I
had the Pleasure to receive a few Days ago I likewise received
a Duplicate of the Letter you were so kind as to write to me
the 10th of Septr last but the Original is not yet come to hand.
I am extreemly sorry that your Endeavours to obtain the Col-
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