164 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

were pleased to transmit to Me with your Letter dated the 17^th
of Aug^st last but could not hear of any such Person, so that I
presume he really lives in Pennsylvania at some Distance
from the present Northern Limits of this Province. You will
see by the inclosed Gazette that the Pennsylvania Assembly
have at length after a long Squabble agreed to grant a Sum
of Money for His Majesty's Service by such a Bill as the
Governor thought himself at liberty to pass tho they have at
the same time by their Resolves & Explanation of the Words
of the Decree of His Majesty in Council endeavoured to influ-
ence & direct the Commissioners & Assessors who may be
appointed to carry the Act into Execution. It is said that M^r
Franklyn who was lately chosen Speaker of the Assembly &
is a principal in the Opposition to the Proprietors Government
will go again to England very shortly in the Character of
Agent for Pennsylvania & it has been intimated to me that he
is very desirous to have a Deputation likewise from the Lower
House of Assembly in this province imagining such an
Appointment would give him additional Weight at home &
that if the Inhabitants of both Provinces were to join in
making Application for a Change of Government they would
be more likely to succeed than if One of them only was to
petition for such a Revolution, While we were with Mess"
Mason & Dixon at Newark near which those Gentlemen are
taking Observations to ascertain the true Latitude of the
Point where the Fifteen Mile Line ends M^r Peters one of the
Pennsylvania Commissioners who was till lately the Governor's
Secretary & a principal Agent for Mess^rs Penns told me that
he should also embark for England this Summer & would not
fail to inform me by Letter of any Steps which he might find
M^r Franklyn instructed or disposed to take with respect to
this Province & if possible to let me know from which of our
Patriots or Great Men M^r Franklyn might receive Advice or
Intelligence. It is with pleasure I tell you that no Mischief
has been done this Summer on our Frontiers by the Indians
tho they have at Times cut off some of the Inhabitants in both
the neighbouring Colonies.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the 130^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis 10^th
July 1764 transmitted by Capt.
Sir
Captain Love being at length arrived in Wye River &
having a few Days ago sent over to me the Box you were

pleased to commit to his Care containing sundry Packets &

Papers I now write by a Ship that is just about to sail from