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received any answer. I now remit you inclosed Firsts of
Exchange for the Sum of £125 0 2 & am with the greatest
Regard —

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of i32^d Letter to M^r Calvert Dated the 18^th Sept^r
1764.
Sir
The Master of a Ship that is about to sail from Wye River
for London having called on me last Night for any Dispatches
I might have for England I embrace the Opportunity to remit
you seconds of the Bills of Exchange for £125 which I sent
inclosed in my Letter dated the 22^d of last Month by Captain
Love: & to transmit you also a Copy of the last Letter I
received from Mess" Mason & Dixon the Surveyors. I am
likewise to inform you that we have lately lost M^r Key one of
the Members of His Ldp's Council & as M^r Bordley is still in
a declining State I am afraid his Death will ere long make
another Vacancy at that Board. The Gentleman whom I shall
in the first place recommend as worthy & proper to be
appointed is M^r James Holliday who was a few years ago at
the Temple & is I think personally known to you he is
esteemed by all that are acquainted with him of good Capacity
& one of our first Rate Lawyers, his moderate cool & unbi-
assed Conduct in the Lower House of which he is a Member
makes me entertain a very favourable opinion of his political
Principles & his Behaviour towards myself hath been always
modest & polite. I presume you will have heard before this
comes to hand that Sir William Johnson hath made a Treaty
of Peace this Summer with all the Tribes of Indians that live
round the Lakes of Ontario Erie Huron & Michigan which
it is thought they are all inclined to preserve inviolate but as
the Shawanese & Delawares who have been principally con-
cerned in committing Hostilities on the Frontiers of these
Provinces declined sending any Representatives to the Treaty
& it was thought expedient to punish them for their Cruelties
& Insolence Two Bodies of Troops were it seems ordered to
march against them One Corps under the Command of Col^o
Bouquet by the way of Pittsburg which I suppose he has
reached about this time. Apprized of the Destination of
those Forces both the Delawares & Shawanese sent Ambas-
sadors as the Gazettes tell us to Col^o Broadstreet to sue for
Peace which on certain Conditions he thought fit to promise
them but as Col^o Bouquet was not satisfied therewith or did
not think himself obliged to observe Col^o Broadstreets
Engagements especially when some of those very Indians
annoyed him on his March we are told from Philad^a that he

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