Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 117

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 123^d Letter to M^r Calvert. Dated Annapolis the 27^th
Sept^r 1763.
Sir
As Captain Love had been detained in the Province so much
longer than I had reason to expect I begun to hope that I
should have got the Surveyors Minutes transcribed & a Plan
or Draft of the several Lines they have run neatly finished
time enough to be transmitted by him, but as the Captain has
brought down his Ship from Chester River this Morning &
the Wind being now fair seems impatient to run down the
Bay & be at Sea I must defer sending you such Copy & Draft
till another opportunity offers: I embrace however this to
inform you that in pursuance of the Instructions given them
the Surveyors on the 30^th of last month finished what they had
been ordered to perform with regard to the Tangent Line or
rather the Line that we call a Tangent which it seems crosses
two Branches of Bohemia River a little below Tide Water &
where when at lowest it is about three feet deep. When the
Surveyors have finished the Platt I shall consult with the Com-
missioners thereon & communicate to you our Sentiments.
The Line that the Surveyors run last (which perhaps is no
more an exact straight Line than those they had run before)
passed as appears by their Minutes at the Distance of five
Chains & twenty five Links westward of the Post mark't MXII,
which was before supposed to stand at the true Tangent Point
as well as at the Extremity of a Twelve Mile Radius from
Newcastle. I am glad it is in my power to tell you that no
Indians have been seen on our Frontiers for these two Months
past & that since Col^o Bouquet reached Pittsburg after defeat-
ing the Indians who annoyed him on his March the Inhabitants
of this Province at least seem to be relieved from their Appre-
hensions of Danger; As I see by the last Phila^a Gazette that
a Packet sailed from New York for England the 18^th Inst. I
presume you will before this reaches you have seen in the
publick Papers an Account of All that had passed at Detroit
to the time the last Advices were received by General Amherst
from that Country, as well as a particular Detail of Col^o Bou-
quet's Conduct when he was attacked on his March to Pitts-
burg by which I believe he has acquired some Reputation.
Col^o Lloyd being now here has agreed with M^r Carrol for a
Piece of Ground in a convenient & high part of this Town on
which he intends to have built as early as possible next
Summer an Office for his Ldp's Agent & Receiver General
- for the Reception of all Counterparts of Mannour Leases
Rent Rolls & all other Books & Papers which relate to His

Letter Bk. IV