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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 535
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his promising that the Lad should not be kept with the other
Felons but treated well on the Passage which Promise I under-
stand was performed, but as the Merchants who have con-
tracted for the Transportation of the London Convicts were
never satisfied, their Factor here would of Course & according
to Custom have sold the Lad to the best Bidder had I not
engaged to pay sixteen Guineas for him. Altho I have not
much Occasion for such a Person I chose to take this Step
rather than suffer him to be sold to a Planter who might have
compelled him during the Term of his Servitude to labour in
the Fields with his Negroes, he acts at present as a Helper
in the Stable under my Coachman & if I find he will answer
the purpose I shall I believe next Summer make a Coachman
of him unless his Father shall choose to reimburse me what I
am to pay for him. Lest the Letter I addressed to you the
10th of July last year should not have come to Your hands tho
I flatter myself it did as the Vessel by which it was sent arrived
safe I now inclose Thirds of the Bills of Exchange for £360
which I then remitted to you, You will likewise receive
inclosed my Draft on Mr Grove for a Ballance due to me from
him being as I imagine about £70, a Bill of Exchange on Mr
Wm Anderson for £75. 10. 10 & a Bill on Mr Wm Perkins for
£10. 10 — I find by a Letter which I had a few Days ago the
Satisfaction to receive from Br William that he has never been
repaid the Money which he was so kind as to advance on my
Account for Fees &c. when I was preparing to come to
America I must therefore beg the favour of you to pay him
the Sum due from me & to Debit my Account therewith. I
am extremely obliged to both you & him for your Assiduity
& the Trouble you were so kind as to take in order to get
those Accounts passed, if the money can be got I shall for
more reasons than one have cause to rejoice, if therefore my
Brother is successful in his farther Application I hope you will
be so kind as to send me the earliest Advice thereof. There
is one Wm Linn in this Province who having served His Maj-
esty twenty two years as a private Soldier & Serjeant in the
Royal Regiment of English Fuzileers then commanded by
Genl Hargrave was on the 5th Day of Augst 1749 admitted a
Pensioner of Chelsea & continued to receive five pence
farthing a Day till 1755 when he was struck off the List by
reason of his Certificate's having miscarried being at that time
an Officer in the Maryland Troops (in which Capacity he con-
tinued to act till they were disbanded & behaved very well)
he was not very uneasy about the Loss of his Pension but as
he has now very little or nothing to subsist on-& is so old that
he cannot labour he has intreated me to use my Endeavours
to obtain him his Pension again from Chelsea; tho I am afraid
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