Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 211

Inhabitants on our Frontier they seem to have almost forgot
all that passed during the War, & were they suffered would
soon extend their Settlements even to Pittsburg. Having in
my Letter to M^r Calvert given him an Account of the Pro-
ceedings of the Commissioners & Surveyors appointed to run
the Divisional Lines I shall only trouble your Ldp on that
head so far as to desire you will be pleased to signify to us
how far the due East & West Line is to be continued West-
ward whether (as the Articles mention) to the Westernmost
Extent of Pennsylvania, how in that Case such Westernmost
Limit is to be ascertained, whether the Commissioners are to
understand the Articles of Ageement in this Sense viz that all
the Land that (when the abovementioned Line is continued to
the Westernmost Limit of Pennsylvania) shall lye between
that Line & the Beginning of the Fortyeth Degree of Latitude
is to be part of Maryland which we on our part conceive was
the Intention of the Agreement: By what I can learn indeed
the Land thereabouts is pretty mountainous, but as the Dis-
tance Westward from the Meridian of the Fountain Head of
the North Branch of Potowmack to where the Mess^rs Penns
five Degrees of Longitude as its supposed will end is guess't
to be many Miles, & it is also several Miles from the Parallel
that our Surveyors are now describing to the Beginning of
the Fortyeth Degree of Latitude, that Paralelogram of Country
if I may use such an Expression would probably be well worth
having, & therefore your Ldp's Commissioners will be anxious
to know your pleasure concerning it before their next meet-
ing with the Pennsylvania Commissioners. Having nothing
more to trouble your Ldp about at present I shall only add
that I remain with the utmost Respect My Ld &c.

Letter Bk. IV

[Gage to Sharpe.]

New York July 2i^st 1765
Sir,
I am to thank you for your Favor of the 28^th June, and am
now to acknowledge the honor of your Letter of the 20^th of
same month, brought here by an Accadian. I find by him that
his Countrymen want a Settlement to be given them in Nova-
Scotia or Canada, either on the Bay of Gaskee or Chalean, on
account they say of the Fishery and that the Climate agrees
with them I don't know how far it would be agreeable to Gov-
ernment, to grant them Settlements in those particular Prov-
inces, but I think means may be fallen upon to render them,
at least their Off-spring, useful to us. I have advised the
Bearer to return to you and to tell his Countrymen to remain
quiet in Maryland till they hear further from you. I shall in

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