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452 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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should be thought by some not sufficiently respectful to the
Memory of the Deceased, but after a month is elapsed I shall
introduce him to the Board & have him qualified agreeable to
His Ldp's Intention. Miss Graham to whom you say the
Apothecary of that name had bequeathed a Legacy died last
Winter in Calvert County at the House of her Unkle Mr Chs
Graham with whom She had resided ever since her Father's
Decease & to whom I understand the Legacy will now fall.
About Two months ago Mr Tasker produced to me the
Inquest relative to Talbot Mannour that was taken by Abel
Van Burkett (who was Sheriff of Cecil County during the
Administration of Governor Hart) saying at the same Time
that he did not when I sometime ago desired him to com-
municate to me all he knew concerning that Affair remember
or recollect that any such Papers were in his Possession:
Apprehending that it would be proper before the Papers were
transmitted to you to have the Hand Writing of the Jurymen
who signed or subscribed the Inquest proved, I advised with
the Attorney Genl thereon & in pursuance of his opinion many
Depositions were taken, as you will see when you receive the
Inquest which Mr Tasker has transmitted by Capt Nathl Chew ;
The Warrant, Inquest, & Depositions having been first tran-
scribed into the Provincial Records: I cannot learn that an
Action has ever been brought in the Provincial Court by any
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Person claiming Talbot Mannour or Part thereof as Heir
Executor Administrator or Assignee of Colo Talbot; There
was indeed an Ejectment brought in the year 1752 (as you
have been heretofore informed) by Mr Saml Thomas as His
Ldp's Lessee agst the Rector of St. Mary Ann Parish, who
was in Possession of a very small Part of the Mannour which
Action was determined in favour of the Defendant, the Court
refusing to pay any Regard to an Authenticated Transcript of
a Record which had been brought from Virga to shew that
Colo Geo. Talbot the Original Patentee of that mannour was
in the year 1684 convicted in Virga of a murder committed in
Maryland, but the Plantiff having appealed agst the Judgment
it was afterwards reversed in the Court of Appeals, of which
I likewise advised you in former Letters; but as you desire
that I will send you authenticated Copies of all Proceedings
that have been had relative to this mannour I have now
ordered the Clerk of the Court of Appeals to prepare a Tran-
script of this with all Expedition in Order that it might be
transmitted, tho for my own Part I cannot conceive that you
will from thence receive any material Information. Pray Sir
who are the Parties that set up a Claim to the abovementioned
mannour & what are their Pretensions? I have been told
that there was an Officer of His Majesty's Forces at Phila two
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