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500 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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Month: The Reason he gives me for Undertaking such a
Voyage is that he thinks it will conduce to the Establishment
of his health, & I hope he has no worse Intention or View, or
if he has I rely on His Ldp's Justice & Your Friendship that
his Expectations will in such Case be frustrated. Should he
in Conversation or by means of other Persons suggest or
insinuate any thing to the Disadvantage of myself or others
Oblige & Serve me I intreat you so far as to desire him to
give you an Account of such matter in Writing for whatever
Liberty he may take to assert Falshoods or misrepresent
Transactions viva voce I do not conceive that he will choose
to subscribe to an untruth, especially if he apprehends it will
not remain a Secret. Lest his Resentment at his Brother's
being disappointed in his ambitions & I will say unreasonable
Desires should prompt him to injure me I conceived it my
Duty thus freely to give you these Hints nevertheless I am of
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opinion that if he finds His Ldp or you averse to taking things
upon Trust he will cautiously avoid saying any thing which
might discover Discontent or give you room to suspect that
he is not well with me, lest you who know how studious I was
for many years to serve him should think he makes me a very
ungrateful Return. Concerning his Abilities you have long
been acquainted with my Sentiments. You know likewise
that so far as was possible I have endeavoured to make a
Friend of him, & if while he is in England you can by any
means convince him that instead of keeping him so long out
of the Council (which I know he suspects I did) I have really
on all occasions expressed my Desire to promote his Interest,
& if you can moreover make him sensible that whatever
Notions he may now entertain His Ldp is determined to sup-
port my Influence & Authority here I shall not despair of
seeing him when he returns to Maryland behave in a manner
very different from what he did last Winter. As I do not
think it improbable that he will at least endeavour to obtain
some Office for one or more of his near Relations that are not
yet provided for I will take the Liberty to enumerate them
& to give You a few Hints concerning their Conduct. Besides
Mr Tasker one of whose Daughters he married a few Years
before I came to America, his Brother Walter whom I have
had Occasion to mention in this Letter, & his Brother Dennis
(formerly a Master of a Ship in Mr Hanbury's Employ) who
was in pursuance of Your Order appointed about a Year ago
Clerk of Kent County, there are the Revd Mr Addison his
Brother in Law by Marriage who together with Mr Murdock a
Member of the Lower House officiously drew up those Ad-
dresses agst Roman Catholicks which were presented to me in
the Years 1755 & 1756, one Mr Hedges in Caecil County
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