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Letter to His Ldp desiring the Time may be prolonged at
least one Year — The Farmer of Worcester County (a great
part of which falls into Sussex) having applied himself to Colo
Lloyd when we were fixing & determining the Middle Point
& desired to .know whether he was to demand any more Quit-
Rents from the People whose Lands lye on the North Side of
the Line that was run in the year 1751 from Fenwix's Island I
thought it was incumbent on us before we gave the Farmer
any Instructions about that matter to take the opinion of some
Lawyer thereon & therefore as neither Mr Dulany nor Mr
Bordley were with us, the former having declined going
because as he alledged he was not well enough, & the latter
having left us at Newcastle, I stated several Queries & sent
them together with the Articles of Agreement to Mr Chs Golds-
borough who lives in Dorchester County, & receiving his an-
swers thereto the second Day afterwards I delivered a Copy of
them to Colo Lloyd & as soon as Mr Bordley who has now the
Articles & Queries under Consideration shall give me his
opinion thereon I will transmit That likewise to the Colonel &
Mr Dulany's also when he shall have given one, that the Sub-
stance of their several opinions might be communicated to the
Farmers & Sheriffs. As almost one of the two Parishes into
which Worcester County is divided will fall into Sussex I
hope His Ldp will approve of my inducting Mr Dingle the
Rector of it into some other Parish that may be vacant —
Being informed that Mr Mcnamara of this City who hath been
many years Clerk of the Lower House of Assembly & Register
of the Commissary's Office embarked about a week ago for
Great Britain & it having been intimated to me that there is
great reason to conclude from what he said one Night over a
Bottle that he will introduce himself to Mr Pitt or to Mr Fox
(one or both of whom according to his own Account have had
a Friendship for him ever since they were educated together)
& endeavour to represent the late Conduct o'f our Assembly
in a fair Light & the Proceedings of the other Branches of the
Legislature in an unfavourable one I thought it my Duty to
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hint as much to you & moreover to inform you that he is a
Person of a most turbulent Spirit & hath never behaved in
such a manner as to make any Friends among those in whose
Power it would have been to do him Service. As he hath for
many Years acted under Mr Dulany & his Father in the Com-
missary's Office being descended as was the latter from Irish
Parents I shall not be surprized if Mr Dulany has given him a
Letter to You or perhaps he will by some means or other
introduce himself to His Ldp. Having just now read in my
Book a Copy of the Letter which I wrote to you the 17th of
Octr I am a little afraid lest from what I added when Mr
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