Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 199

Shawanese fulfilld their Engagements with Fidelity, Intelligence
that gives me great pleasure & I thank your Excellency for
communicating it to me. I am sensible of the Danger there
is lest the Irregularities of the Frontier Inhabitants of these
Colonies should irritate the neighbouring Indians & be pro-
ductive of bad Consequences & Your Excellency may depend
that as far as my power extends it shall be exerted to prevent
such Proceedings as you mention but I have not been yet
able to learn that any Persons who have Settlements within
this Province were concerned in the Riots you allude to nor
has liberty been given by this Government to any Person to
settle on any Lands lying beyond the Alegany Mountains. I
have never heard of the Affair mentioned in the Extract of a
Letter from Winchester nor of any Hunter in this Province
who in Company with One Walker of Virginia killed two
Indians at Pittsburg & boasts of the Fact, if there is such a
one & I can learn who he is I will endeavour to have him
apprehended & sent whither Your Excellency pleases, for I
do not know how he can be tried or punished in this Province
for a crime committed out of it. I am &c.

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 137^th Lett^r to M^r Calvert dated 10^th July 1765
Sir
Your Letter dated the 17^th of October last six several
Instructions from My Lord bearing Date the 16^th of January,
two Letters from His Ldp dated the 7^th & 9^th of February,
two other Instructions bearing Date the 7^th & 26^th of the same
Month & the two Letters you were pleased to favour me with
the 6^th of March & 2^d of April last having been lately delivered
to me almost all of them together I embrace the first Oppor-
tunity that has since offered to acknowledge my Receipt of
them, & to answer or observe on such Parts of them as require
any thing to be done by me or to which I apprehend some
answer might be expected & I shall proceed according to
their respective Dates. It happened a little unlucky that the
Bill of Excha for £30 which you have returned me with Protest
did not come to hand a few Months ago for I am afraid it is
now over with the Drawer & that I shall not be able to secure
all the Money, but you may depend on my remitting you a
Bill in lieu thereof as soon as I can get one that is suitable.
You will see by a Minute of the Commissioners at their Meet-
ing the 17^th of last Month that Mess^rs Mason & Dixon had
then finished all their Work on the East Side of Susquehannah
River which their Line crosses near half a Mile Northward of
the Temporary Line, & that they are now proceeding with the

Letter Bk. IV