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Letter Bk. III

persuaded be very alert & ready to render you any Service in
his power & to obey as far as possible any orders he might
receive for that purpose. As I some time ago sent Colonel
Prather Instructions to order out any of the Militia under his
Command for the Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants in
case the Indians should make an Incursion into this Province
& he has several times ordered Parties out when the Accounts
brought him have made him think such a Step expedient I
flatter myself he will still continue to do so on similar occasions.
I am sorry Sir it is not in my power to return a more satis-
factory answer to your Letter & to promise you effectual
Assistance should you stand in need of it, for besides a most
earnest Desire to promote His Majesty's Service I have such
a particular Regard for yourself as would make me embrace
with pleasure every opportunity of doing any thing you could
desire & am with great Respect D^r Colonel, yrs.

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the 1 28^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis 8^th
May 1764 transmitted by Captain Ritchie.
Sir
The Vessel which I mentioned in my Letter dated the 13^th
of March being now about to sail I embrace the Opportunity
to transmit Duplicates of the Acts that were passed last
Session & also Copies of the Journals of the Proceedings in
both Houses by which I think you will observe that altho some
pretty warm Messages past between them towards the End
of the Session on Occasion of the College Bill the Journal &
Ordinary Lycences they both behaved towards me with great
Respect & that more Business was dispatched at that Meeting
than had been done for many years past. As I have already
apprized you of what I expect will happen on Account of those
Lycence Fines I shall not trouble you again on that Subject
but if His Lordship & you both make a Point of securing
them it is methinks a little extraordinary that your Deputy
here should by his Conduct & Declarations shew that he is for
Appropriating them in some shape or other to the use &
particular advantage of the People, the Consequence of which
Behaviour must be the making those of the Council who
behave differently very obnoxious to the Inhabitants of the
Province. It is with pleasure I inform you that our Frontier
Inhabitants still remain undisturbed & quiet & that the
Accounts lately brought from the northward afford us great
Room to hope a general Peace with all the Indians will by S^r
William Johnsons Endeavours be soon established or that if
some of the Shawanese & Delawares should be averse to such