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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761

Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 65
Doct^r Steuart the Contents of Your Ldp's last Letter & would have persuaded them to pay the Arrears that are become due since they made the last Remittance but they seem determined to decline it hoping that your Ldp will be prevailed on by the	Letter Bk. I.
Representation that they will now make to supersede your former order. I profess that it gives me a good Deal of con- cern to find myself unable to comply with Your Ldp's Instruc- tion in favour of M^r Wogan but as the Judges of the Land Office gave no Bond to pay that Ł100 p Ann they cannot be compelled to do so & if they were to be removed for their failure I cannot mention two Gentⁿ in the Province that would sollicit their post if they knew the Conditions on which it was to be obtained. Indeed I am sensible from what I feel myself that the annual Amount of Fees to the Land Office has been much reduced since the Inhabitants have been deterred from making Surveys on the Frontiers. I have been told that the Tob^o which has been paid the Chancellor in one Year for signing Patents for Land that has been taken up in Frederick County has been worth near a hundred Pounds & I can assure your Ldp that all the Fees which I receive in a year as Chan- cellor do not amount to the Sum that I am ordered to pay annually to M^r Calvert. Now as the Fee for affixing the Seal to a Patent is trifling when compared with what the Patentee must pay for its passing thro the Land Office the Income of that office must have been reduced in proportion with mine & I am convinced that the Profitts which remain to the Judges after the Clerks & other office Expences (which are very great) are paid cannot be very considerable however I submit this matter entirely to Your Ldp & if You shall be pleased to issue any new order thereupon I shall use my Endeavours to carry them into Execution. We have not as yet received any certain Advice of Admiral Holborne's Arrival at Hallifax but we can- not help flattering ourselves that he has joined the Fleet under	p. 298
the Command of S^r Cha^s Hardy before this time. By several Persons who were made Prisoners but have lately made their Escape from the Enemy we are told that the French propose to make an Attempt on Fort Cumberland before the End of the Campaign. One Street a Soldier that was taken at the Reduction of Fort Granville last year is one of them that has lately escaped from the Enemy & he being examined on Oath declares that in May last the Garrison of Fort Du Quesne consisted of about 300 French & some Indians but that before he came off a Reinforcement of 200 had come up the Ohio & brought with them a considerable Quantity of Provisions in 12 large Boats, that when he left Fort Du Quesne 700 Sol- diers had been some time expected down the River & that by what he had heard during his Stay there an Expedition was	p. 299

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