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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 539

make Insurance at Phila or N York. The Exchange still con-
tinues very high with us so that £175 Currency rating Dollars
at 7/ 6 & Pistoles at 27 / will scarcely purchase a Bill for £100
stg. which is principally owing I suppose to the late Impor-
tation of such quantities of Specie for the Troops & to the
Emissions of such vast Sums of Paper Money in several of
these Colonies. By a Letter which I received a few Days ago
from the Surveyors of which I inclose you a Copy I find that
they had the 5th Inst continued & run the Line 44 miles from
the Middle point so that I presume they will get up to New-
castle some time next month. I am &c. 		Letter Bk. IV
[Sharpe to Joshua Sharpe.]

Annapolis 14th Septr 1761.
Dr Br
Having been informed by Br William how assiduous you
were to get those Accounts which I some time ago transmitted
to him passed by the three Generals to whom they had by the
Lds of the Treasury been referred for Examination & who it
seems were pleased to make such a Report thereon as was
agreeable to Your wishes I embrace this opportunity to make
my Acknowledgments to you for that new Instance of Your
Friendship & of Your Desire to oblige me & did I know in
what manner it would be most agreeable to you that those
whose Interest you were endeavouring to promote could
acknowledge Your Services I dare say they would in case of
their being paid most chearfully do so.
In a Letter which I addressed to you soon after I was
advised of the Death of our Brother John I beg'd the favour
of You to get from among his Papers & to return to me a
State which I had sent him relative to our Revenue Laws
which Cousin Sharpe told me some time ago You had found
on examining his Father's Papers. If it is still in Your Pos-
session I should be much obliged to you for sending it to me
as I have reason to think that now our Assembly will not have
an opportunity to dispute again about raising Supplies they
will again make " our Act for the Support of Government," of
which they have heretofore questioned the Validity a Bone of
Contention between us & in that Case I apprehend the above-
mentioned State would furnish me with Arguments in its
Support.

Letter Bk. III


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