206 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

the Stamp Act, I did not for my part expect they would meet
with any other Reception but I can assure you the Col-
onies that sent them highly resent it. You will judge by the
inclosed Gazettes what kind of Spirit the Passing of the Stamp
Act has raised throughout North America, & should it be
kept alive I don't know but it might sometime hence have
mischievous Effects but if the Parliament do not at the next
Session lay any new Burthen or Restraint on the Colonies, the
Resentment of the Colonists will probably dye away, tho I
really think the people here will in consequence of the Uproar
go upon Manufactures, & endeavour to discourage the Impor-
tation of such Quantities of Goods as have for some years
past been imported hither from Great Britain you long ago
heard that a general Peace was made by S^r Will^m Johnson
with all the Indians in North America with whom the English
Inhabitants had any Intercourse but I perceive by a late North-
ern Gazette that the Garrison of Detroit are not without some
Apprehensions of being attacked again this Summer. The
Frontier Inhabitants of these Colonies however are not now
under the least Dread, but they retain such a hatred towards
the Indians that it seems they have met several times on the
Frontiers of Pennsylva^a in a riotous manner to destroy Quanti-
ties of Goods particularly Arms & Ammunition which some
people were carrying towards Pittsburg for the Indians who
are permitted to come & trade at that Post. The Lett/ for
W^m Shaw that you inclosed in yours of the 2^d of April I have
caused to be forwarded to him & have also sent the Lett^r
address't to M^r Will^m Baxter to his Son for M^r Baxter himself
has I think been dead these three years & as he was sometime
before disabled for Business I presume that nothing was done
by him under the Power of Attorney which M^rs Mary Rhodes
& her two Sisters had Impowered M^r John Price to send him.
They will therefore I suppose think proper to send a Power
of Attorney to some other person here authorizing him to
demand & receive from the Widow of M^r Anthony Rhodes (a
part of whose Estate they claim) what shall appear to be due to
them, & with the Power of Attorney (which should be executed
in the presence of two Witnesses one of whom at least must
here prove its Execution) the Claimants should transmit the
person they may constitute their Attorney here the best
Evidence they can produce of their being the Sisters & the
only Heirs at Law of the M^r Anthony Rhodes who lived at
the Kingsbury Furnace in this province & died here in January
1761. The power should also authorize him to enter on &
take possession of such Lands & other real Estate as the said
M^r Rhodes may have died possess't of & (if they please) to
sell the same when recovered at publick Sale or otherwise for