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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 529

he has received, & in short his Behaviour in this & other Mat-
ters has been so shameful & scandalous that I am confident
his being appointed to another Office would bring Reproach
on the Administration & was he not so nearly related to Mr
Dulany, the latter must have rather thought him a fit Object
of Contempt & of the Government's Resentment than of Con-
ferring on him another lucrative Office. As I doubt not but
Mr Dulanv conceives himself vested with a Right to bestow 		Letter Bk. IV
the Clerkships when they become vacant on whom he pleases,
I thought it my Duty to write to you so freely on this Subject
lest you may otherwise be imposed on, as to my own part I
have no particular person to recommend, but it would grieve
me to see such Offices bestowed on Persons who have not by
any one Act merited the least favour from either the Lord
Proprietary or Myself, nor can I think Mr Dulany has per-
formed such Services as gives him a Right to expect & insist
that all his Relations however unworthy shall be provided for
preferable to every Body else. In my Letter dated the 4th of
March I remitted you a Bill of Exchange for £118. 2.6 which
was £6. 17.6 short of the Sum for which could I have got one
I should have then sent you a Bill, I therefore now inclose you
a Bill on Mr Russel for £76. 17.6 & my own Draft on Mr
Grove for£55. 16.6 being for the abovementioned Deficiency
& the half year, ending the Tenth of this month.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Annapolis the 3d of August 1761.
My Lord
As I entertain hopes that the Letters which I did myself the
honour to address to your Ldp the 20th of April & 23d of June
last & of which I transmitted Duplicates will be received before
this can come to your Ldp's hands I have nothing to trouble
Your Ldp with at present except a Request of the Revd Mr
Swifts who is at present Rector of Portobacco a very good
Parish in Charles County who being indisposed & of opinion
that he should enjoy a better State of Health in Ireland his
Native Country petitions for Leave to resign in favour of one
Mr Browne Rector of a less valuable Parish in St Mary's
County but this was a Request to which I did not think myself
at Liberty to return an answer till I should receive your Ldp's
Instructions. As to Mr Swift I hear nothing worse of him
than that he is a very poor heavy Preacher, & I believe the
Parishioners would in that respect be by no means better off
was Mr Browne to become their Rector for him I have heard
or rather seen in the Pulpit but if Mr Swift would offer to

p. 208
resign in favour of many other Clergymen in the Province I p. 209


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