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

I shall do what lies in my power to get to you in the Winter
for a couple of months, & I believe his LOp will indulge me so
far, I shall have little business on my hands till towards the
beginning of the Campaign. I beg you will not blame me for
not writing you what is doing. I give you my word I know
nothing having had no letters since His Lop sailed; but I
shall write you from Hallifax. I am with the greatest Regard
Dear Governour
Your most obedient and most obliged
humble Servant
John St Clair
Letter Bk. I.
p. 296 		[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Ist of August 1757
My Ld
In answer to Your Ldps Letter of the 18th of April which
was sent me by Colo Lloyd a few Days ago I take the Liberty
to acquaint Your Ldp that immediately on the Receit of Your

p. 297 Ldps Order in favr of Mr Wogan I notified Your Ldp's
Requisition to the Judges of the Land Office & desired that
they would from that time take Care to make Remittances
agreeable to Your Ldp's order upon this they represented
to me that their Profitts from the Office were too small to
enable them to pay such an Additional Sum & they soon after
brought me an Account to confirm what they had before
advanced. As Your Ldp's Commands were peremptory I
intimated to them that I thought it my Duty to see them
executed whereupon they said that they must then take the
Liberty to write home themselves & to acquaint Your Ldp
with the Low State of the Office & their inability to bear the
Additional Burthen that Your Ldp had ordered to be laid on
them. By the next opportunity of Conveyance that offered I
transmitted the Accot to Mr Calvert expecting that he would
on the Receit of the Judge's Letter or Representation submit
the same to your Ldp & receive your Instructions thereon.
Since that time I have more than once recommended it to the
Gentn to continue their Remittances to Mr Wogan as well as
to Mr Calvert but they as often answered that they were
assured your Ldp could not after you knew the State of their
office & the prodigious Decrease of their Income require
them to pay so very considerable a sum out of it more than
had been ever imposed when the Office was in its most flour-
ishing State & they farther urged that Mr Calvert's Silence
after receiving their Lettr & the Account that I transmitted
was a sufficient Indication that their Representation had been
favourably heard I have now communicated to Mr Calvert &


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