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the mean Time write to The Governor of Canada and Nova-
Scotia and shall likewise transmit their Petition to me, to His
Majesty's Secretary of State: and whatever Intelligence 1
shall gain respecting His Majesty's Pleasure concerning these
unhappy People you will be immediately acquainted with. 1
should think that it would be greatly to the advantage of some
of the great Landholders to give a Tract to these People on
very moderate Terms, in order to begin a settlement on some
of their unsettled Lands.
I have the honor to be with great Regard
Sir
Your most obedient
humble Servant
Tho^s Gage.

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Calvert]

Copy of 138^th Letter to M^r Calvert. Dated 2^d of August 1765
transmitted by Capt Hanrick.
Sir
Having on the 10^th & 111^th of last Month wrote & trans-
mitted by a Ship which was then about to sail from Potuxent
two long Letters to His Ldp & yourself acknowledging my
Receipt of & answering His Ldp's several Instructions & Let-
ters bearing Date the 16 of January 7^th 9^th & 26^th of Feb^y &
the Letters you had been pleased to favour me with the 16^th
of Jan^y 6^th of March & 2^d of April last I have not any thing to
trouble either His Ldp or you about at present nor any thing
worthy Notice to communicate but I could not let a Ship sail
from this place without a Letter to you especially as I recom-
mend to the Captains Care the Acts of Assembly which were
to have accompanied my last Letter but on Account of the
Size of the parcel I could not have them conveyed on board
the Potuxent Ship without sending an Express Messenger
therewith down to the Naval Office. In my last Letter I
hinted to you that I had heard a Circular Letter had been
sent by one of the New England Assemblies to the Speakers
of the several Assemblies in the other Colonies inviting them
to send a Committee to some certain place in order to concert
Measures for obtaining a Repeal of the Stamp Act, & you will
see in one of the inclosed Gazettes that the Report was not
without Foundation, but if the Meeting is to be held at the
time therein mentioned I fancy that neither the Assemblies of
this Province or Virginia will be represented there for they
are not to meet till after the Day appointed, & if the Small
Pox should still continue here I question whether our
Assembly will meet at all, as many I believe most of Them are