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438 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. II]
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: them exclusive of Houghs are two that are enjoyed at present
by Mr Tasker & his Son, the former of whom is Surveyor of
Annapolis by which he gets a Salary of £60 a year & the
Latter being Surveyor of Sassafrass receives a Salary of £50.
The Reason of my troubling you with so particular an Ac-
count of these Offices is that in Case any of them should
become vacant & you will be so kind as to forget the Trouble
I have already given you & sollicit His Grace once more You
may know the Value of what you apply for. However as I
do not now entertain very sanguine hopes of seeing Mr Ridout
in possession of such an Office in the Customs here as I could
wish & having a great Esteem & Regard for him I have taken
the Liberty to recommend him in a particular manner to His
Lclp for favour not choosing to rely entirely on Mr Calvert
who notwithstanding what he may have told you has not only
recommended Persons to me for Offices which I would have
bestowed on others, but hath even sent me Instructions from
my Lord to appoint particular Persons of his own Choosing to
almost every Office in the Gov' except the Sheveralties that
hath become vacant during my Administration I am not at all
surprized at what you tell me of his being sometimes in good
humour & at other times appearing dissatisfied when he calls
on you nor do I conceive you will wonder at it when I tell you
that he lends a willing Ear to every Story that is told him
concerning even the most trifling Transaction or Accident that
happens in the Province, he sollicits the Correspondence of
many of the members of the Council & others with a view I
suppose he would say of coming at the Truth & lest he should
be misled by the partial Representations of myself or any
other single Person but as his Correspondents have different
Interests & many of them are at Enmity I am sure their
Letters can answer no other End but to confuse him or increase
his Doubts & perhaps some of them may incline him at times
to entertain an unfavourable opinion of myself. In a Letter I
lately received from him he seems to intimate that he thinks
the turbulent Spirit which the Assembly have shewn for some
Years past might have been easily laid I could almost wish he
had been to make the Experiment but tho he does now &
then write in such a manner as affords me little satisfaction
yet he never fails to profess himself my sincere Friend & that
he thinks His Ldp is much obliged to me for my Services.
But I lately received a Lettr from my Ld himself that hath
given me more pleasure than all that his Secretary hath
favoured me with, a Copy of which as I think the Contents
will give you likewise Pleasure I shall take the Liberty to
inclose, & I am not without hopes that the Step which His
Ldp has taken in presenting me with such a Box as is men-
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