Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 161

Governor, & the other Third to the Informer, she was stop't
in the Bay by the master of another Vessel who said she
belonged to a Person in the Grenades & had been run away
with & brought hither without the owners Knowledge & that
thereupon the Owner had advertized the Skipper & Crew as
Pirates. As the Skipper run away as soon as he found an
Enquiry was to be made & there are other Circumstances
which seem to confirm the above" Account I as yet detain in
my hands the nett Proceeds of the Vessel & Cargo (amount-
ing to about £105 stg after all Expences paid) intending if
the Owner should apply & satisfy me that what is abovemen-
tioned was really the Truth to make him a present of my
Share, & the other unless His Lordship is willing also to
make the owner a Compliment will be paid to & accounted
for by the Agent. You will see by the inclosed Copy of a
Letter from the Surveyors that they expect to have run the
fifteen Mile South Line by the 19^th Inst after which they will I
suppose proceed on the West Line. I likewise send you
inclosed a Letter from M^r Brice Clerk of this County & one
of our Provincial Justices desiring Leave to resign the Clerk-
ship in favour of his Son, to which I have for my part no
Objection but rather hope you will comply with his Request.
The Assemblies of Virginia & Pennsylvania having both
declined complying with the General's Call on them this
Spring to assist in garrisoning Pittsburg & the other Western
Posts He did not I suppose think it worth while to apply to
us for any Troops but has lately wrote to desire I will let
some of our Militia join in case of necessity any Detachment
of the Regulars which might be employed in Convoying Pro-
visions to Pittsburg, to which I tell him I have no Objection &
shall recommend it to the Colonel of Frederick County to
encourage them to give such their assistance but at the same
time I have advised him not to depend on them lest he should
be disappointed. It gives me much pleasure to see by the
few Lines you were pleased to write to me the 23^d of Nov^r
that His Ldp was well tho his Voyage to Constantinople had
been fatiguing: As I presume you communicate to His Ldp
from time to time such parts of my Letters as you think mate-
rial I decline addressing any to himself till you advise me of
his Intention to return & of the time you expect to have the
pleasure of seeing him again in England, in the mean time I
shall not fail to write often to yourself so that you may be
fully informed of all our Transactions. I am &c.

Letter Bk. IV