114 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

that I expect the Merchants who have lost any Tobacco during
the War & have not yet applied to you for a Lycence to
export an equal quantity free of Duty will make their Appli-
cation to you before that time. Having answered such Parts
of your several Letters as seemed to require answers I now
proceed to inform you that having on my Return from New-
castle the 25^th of last Month received Letters from the Earl of
Egremont & the Board of Trade requiring me to cause peace to
be proclaimed within this Province in the usual solemn manner
& to appoint a Day of publick Thanksgiving to be observed
throughout the Province on occasion of the Re-establishment
of Peace & Tranquility, Peace was accordingly proclaimed
with all Ceremony in this City on Monday the first of this
month & Proclamations were issued directing the Sheriffs
Justices &c. to proclaim the same in the several Counties: &
by Advice of the Council I appointed Tuesday the 23^d of this
Month to be observed as a Day of Publick Thanksgiving. In
my Letter dated the 2^d of July I sent you some Gazettes to
shew you that we had some reason to apprehend the Indians
would renew their Incursions & again commit hostilities on
our Frontier Inhabitants. What was then only feared has
since come to pass for there have been two or three persons
killed in the Western Part of Frederick County & the People
who had settled beyond Fort Frederick retired thereupon to
that place for Shelter, but as some Parties of Militia & Volun-
tiers were sent out to range on the Frontiers & Colonel
Bouquet marched with six hundred men to reinforce the Gar-
rison at Pittsburg which the Indians were said to have invested,
the Terror that our Frontier Inhabitants were in on the first
Alarm is I understand pretty well over tho in prudence I think
the people who lived beyond Fort Frederick where the Planta-
tions are so far distant from each other that they could not
give one another Assistance, ought not to return to their Habi-
tations untill the Indians are reduced so as to sue for Peace
which I doubt not but the Steps taken by S^r Jeffery Amherst will
soon oblige them to do. As I see by a Copy of the Letter
that M^r Ridout in my Absence wrote to you the 23^d of last
Month that he therein transmitted you an Account to shew
what Money is due to you from the Estate of M^r Jennings as
Executor of your Brother Governor Leonard Calvert & at
the same time transmitted to M^r Hunt a Power of Attorney
from the Visitors of the Free-school authorizing him to receive
what money you shall be pleased to pay him for the use of the
said School nothing remains for me but in the name of the
Visitors to return you Thanks for what you have done & intend
to do for the Advancement of the School, to which I have for
my part engaged to contribute Ten pounds a year during my