Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 187

Lower House I doubt not but as he enjoys a good State of
Health he will give due Attendance in the Upper. I have also
in my Letter to His Ldp taken the Liberty to express my
hopes that M^r Holliday will be appointed to fill the Seat in the
Council sometime ago vacated by the Death of M^r Key & I
shall be very glad to receive His Ldp's Instructions in favour of
both those Gentlemen before the next Meeting of the Assembly.
It is with pleasure I tell you that the Delawares Shawanese &
other Indians who have for some time past been committing
Murders on the Frontiers of the two neighbouring Provinces
have at last been reduced to the Necessity of suing for Peace
& in order to obtain it have surrendered up all the Prisoners
they had made during the War so that we now flatter our-
selves the Frontier Inhabitants will remain undisturbed & the
Ravages of the Indian War be soon repaired & forgotten.
That you may see what Progress Mess^rs Mason & Dixon have
made in running the Lines I shall herewith transmit you a
Copy of the Minutes of the Commissioners Proceedings at
their last Meeting the 24^th of Novem^r I am in hopes that before
the End of next Summer they will have extended the North
Boundary a good Distance but suppose it will be two years
yet before the whole Business can be finished. I remain with
the greatest Regard Sir
Your obliged & most obedt Servt

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis the 15^th Decem^r 1764.
My Lord
Having an Opportunity of transmitting Letters to England
by a Ship that is just about to sail from this Place I embrace
it to inform your Lordship that upon the Decease of M^r
Bordley the late Commissary General who died here about a
Week ago I thought myself obliged by what your Ldp was
sometime ago pleased to signify to me relative to the Disposal
of that Office to offer it to M^r Charles Goldsborough on condi-
tion he would remove hither & live in Annapolis which he has
thereupon agreed to do & a Commission hath been accordingly
made out for him. As I have taken this Step on a Presump-
tion that your Ldp thought M^r Goldsborough the most proper
Person among the Members of the Council to be Commissary
in case the Office should become vacant by M^r Bordley's
Resignation or Decease I flatter myself Your Ldp will approve
thereof & confirm the Appointment: & I am in hopes M^r
Goldsborough's Conduct in the Discharge of his Duty will
give general Satisfaction. There being by reason of M^r
Bordley's Decease another Vacancy in the Council I think it

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