Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 19

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis the 15^th of Feb^y 1762.
My Ld
Having received Your Ldp's several Instructions dated the
8^th of Oct^r last I now do myself the honour to inform your
Ldp that I have since communicated to the Gentlemen of the
Council what your Ldp was pleased to write in answer to our
Address on occasion of the Demise of His late Majesty where-
upon the Gentⁿ agreed to express by another Address their
Acknowledgments to your Ldp for complying so readily with
their former Request & at the same time to beg the favour of
Your Ldp to present to our most gracious Sovereign & his
Royal Consort our Addresses of Congratulation on the Con-
summation of their Nuptials. A Proclamation signifying to
all Ministers of the Gospel within this Province that for the
future The Queen is to be prayed for in all places of Worship
agreeable to the Form ordered by His Majesty & mentioned
by Your Ldp hath been issued & sent to the several Sheriffs
to be published & I shall likewise pay due Regard to Your
Ldp's Instruction relative to those people whose Plantations
have been already or may be found to lye on the Pennsylvania
Side of the Divisional Lines. I am very glad to find that
Your Ldp approves of my having upon the Discovery of M^r
Darnall's fraudulent Neglect appointed M^r Ross Naval Officer
of Patuxent on the Considerations & Conditions of which I
advised Your Ldp, & I am grateful for your Ldp's favourable
answer to my Solicitation on behalf of M^r Ross's Son in Law
D^r Scott a Gentleman for whose faithful Service I can under-
take to answer & am confident Your Ldp will never have the
least Reason to repent of any favour conferred on him. Your
Ldp's Instruction relative to the several Naval Officers giving
particular or special Bonds conditioned for their payment to
Your Ldp's Agent of all such Money as they may respectively
collect for Your Ldp's use shall be forthwith communicated
to them & I will take Care that their several Bonds shall be
returned to the Receiver Gen^l I have agreeable to Your Ldp's
pleasure ordered a Commission to be made out for Col^o Henry
as Naval Officer of Pocomoke in the Stead of M^r Young &
another for M^r Ridout as Naval Officer of this Port in the
Room of M^r Bordley who upon my pressing him again, to do
so quits it for the Office of Com^y Gen^l I shall when I again
see M^r Goldsborough advise him of your Ldp's Instruction in
his favour & at the next Session cause him to be admitted a
Member of the Upper House of Assembly. I have agreeable
to M^r Calvert's Desire dispatched to Col^o Lloyd the Letter that
was addressed to him inclosing as I presume the Instructions

Letter Bk. IV