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[Sharpe to Calvert]
Copy of 129th Letter to Mr Calvert Dated the 11th June 1764.
Transmitted by Captain Stiles.
Sir
In my last Letter dated the 8th of May I inclosed you one
from Messrs Mason & Dixon by which you would see they had
desired the Commrs to meet on the 19th of that Month which
you will perceive by the Copy of their Minutes now trans-
mitted that they accordingly did. Being informed by a
Person who came hither from Cecil County a few Days before
we were to set off that there was a little Town called Newark
near the place where the Fifteen Mile Line ended in which
the Commissioners might be pretty well accommodated I
imagined the Pennsylvania Gentlemen would have no Objec-
tion to adjourning from Newcastle thither & therefore instead
of Crossing the Bay to go to Newcastle I desired Messrs Leeds
Steuart & Jennifer to proceed to Newcastle in order to meet
there according to Adjournment & proceeded myself with Mr
Beall Bordley by the way of Baltimore County & across Sus-
quehannah to the little Town abovementioned whither the
Commissioners came the Second Day after my Arrival having
however first agreed at Newcastle on the New Instruction
which it was thought necessary to give the Surveyors who had
attended them. As the Spot where the Fifteen Mile south
Line terminates is more than a quarter of a Mile Northward
of the Point to which the Temporary Line run in 1739 inclined
us to think it would extend there will certainly be a good Deal
of Land added to Cecil County & I suppose a narrow Belt or
Slipe to Baltimore County likewise & I now think there will
be no great Danger of the Boundary Lines crossing Potow-
mack River. As a great part of the Land which will by run-
ning the West Line be taken into or added to Caecil County
will lye within the Bounds of Talbot mannour & is almost all
occupied by Persons who will not easily relinquish their Pos-
sessions, I submit it to Your Consideration whether it would
not be His Lordship's Interest to leave it to His Agent to
prevail on them if possible by offering them long Leases to
attorn & quietly become his Tenants, or if you think Eject-
ments can be supported & ought to be brought (for I some-
time ago informed you particularly how that Mannour is cir-
cumstanced) would it not be proper for you to send the Agent
express & particular Instructions with respect to it as soon as
possible so that he might not act timorously & as if he was in
doubt nor seem to acquiesce in the present Occupants keep-
ing peaceable Possession. While I was up in that part of the
Country I made Enquiry myself after that John Proby who
sometime ago delivered or sent you the long Petition you
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