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522 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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the Pennsylvania Commrs & us what I have mentioned it was
thought expedient to have another Meeting before the 6th of
July to which Day we at our last Meeting adjourned in order
to give the Surveyors farther Instructions either to discontinue
their Work till the Beginning of August when those Stars will
again transit the Meridian at an hour the Surveyors can take
an Observation by them or to agree upon some other Method
of taking an Observation. The Commissioners are to meet
this Day at Chester Town, on the part of the Proprietors of
Pennsylva Messrs Peters Chew Alien & Lardner, & on behalf
of His Ldp I believe Mr Bordley Mr Leeds & the Revd Mr
Barclay the Rector of All Hallows Parish whom on Account of
his Knowledge in the Mathematicks & the good opinion I
entertain of him I have appointed in the Stead of Mr Dulany,
I should have gone myself had I not been afflicted last Satur-
day with a Fit of the Fever & Ague which I was afraid would
return again, & Mr Ridout is rendered incapable at present to
take such a Journey having for this Week past been troubled
with very severe Fits of that Disorder, the Seeds of which
were he thinks imbibed at a place called Marshy Hope in
Dorchester County whither we went the Week before last to
see how the Surveyors were proceeding. Mr Dulany having
signified to me that he is to leave Annapolis next Thursday in
order to embark on Board a Ship that will sail from Potuxent
the 26th Inst I this morning signed a Commission for him as
Deputy Secretary & shall to Morrow appoint Mr Ridout Com-
missary Genl in his Stead, Mr Dulany has been with me since
I sent him his Commission & promises to execute a Bond for
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the payment of £300 stg a year to you as soon as his Brother
who is to be his Surety comes to Town, which he will this
Evening or to Morrow, but I apprehend from what Mr Dulany
said that he will endeavour to have that Sum reduced to what
Colo Tasker paid you. His sole Design as he tells me in
undertaking such a Voyage is to carry home his Son & with
hopes that it will remove an Obstruction which he is afraid is
forming in his Liver & that in Case the Voyage gives him
Relief he shall immediately return again to Maryland; being
asked this Afternoon when he was with me whether he would
in Case His Ldp & you should when he arrives be at Epsom
wait on you there he said he did not know that he should,
nevertheless I dare say you will see him very soon after his
Arrival for I cannot conceive that he can think of going to
England & return without paying His Ldp & Yourself a
Visit — Inclosed I will send you a Copy of the Bond which he
is to execute not thinking it proper without your Order to
venture the Original, perhaps you may think it better to pre-
vail on him to execute a similar Bond to you in England with
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