188 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

my Duty to recommend to your Lordship as a Person worthy
of a Seat there Colonel Henry Hooper a Gentleman of Dor-
chester County who has for many years been Speaker of the
Lower House of Assembly where he behaved with great
Moderation & respect towards the Government & would have
been again elected a Representative for his County had he
not declined it on Account of his Age & the continual Attend-
ance he was obliged to in the Lower House by being Speaker.
As I did in a Letter I sometime ago wrote to M^r Calvert on
Occasion of the Death of M^r Key take the liberty to mention
M^r James Holliday as a Gentleman pf great Merit & one whom
I should wish to see a Member of the Upper House I entertain
hopes that M^r Calvert has thereupon recommended him to
your Ldp & that your Ldp hath been pleased to favour my
Request with regard to that Gentleman. It is with pleasure
I inform your Ldp that I find by a Letter which I lately
received from Colonel Bouquet who commands his Majesty's
Forces at Fort Pitt & on this Side New York that the Dela-
wares & other Indians who for some time past had ravaged
the Frontiers of Pennsylvania & Virginia have at length sued

for Peace in the most suppliant manner bringing in & surren-
dering up all the Prisoners they had among them & that in
Consequence thereof & of their giving Hostages the Colonel
had ordered a Cessation of Hostilities & given their Deputies
Leave to go to Sir Will^m Johnson in order to make Peace for
their respective Tribes, so that we now flatter Ourselves a firm
& lasting Peace will be established with all the Indian Nations
that live to the Westward of these Colonies. Having in my
Letter to M^r Calvert advised him of what progress is made in
running the Lines, I will not give your Ldp farther trouble at
present, but only add that I am, with the utmost Respect &c

Original.

[Baltimore to Sharpe.]

Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietor
of the Province of Maryland and Avalon in
America Lord Baron of Baltimore in the
Kingdom of Ireland.

Orders and Instructions to be observed and
pursued by Our Trusty and Well-beloved Horatio
Sharpe Esq. Our Lieutenant General and
Chief Governor of Our Province of Maryland.

F. Baltimore
The occasion of M^r John Ross holding the Naval Officer of
Patuxent Port now ceasing, in which Scituation he has obliged