30 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

a Letter from the Earl of Egremont dated the 12^th of Dec^r I

do myself the honour to inform You that agreeable to His
Majesty's pleasure signified to me by the Secretary of State &
Your Excellency I forthwith issued proclamations requiring
the Gen^l Assembly of this Province to meet here the 15^th Inst
which was as soon as they could possibly be convened & to
assure you that I shall then lay before them those Letters &
use my utmost Endeavours to prevail on them to comply with
His Majesty's Requisition & Your Excellency may depend
that as soon as I shall be advised of the Assembly's Resolu-
tions I will communicate the same to you by Express agree-
able to your Desire.

[Sharpe to Amherst.]

To S^r Jeffery Amherst Annapolis the 13 of March 1762.
Sir
I am now to return Your Excellency Thanks for the Letter
you were so kind as to send me the 9^th of last Month in
answer to one I had taken the Liberty to address to you the
26^th of Jan^y. Immediately on the Receipt of Your Excellencys
Favour I communicated the Contents of it to such of the Gen-
tlemen who were Officers of the Maryland Troops in the
years 1757 & 1758 as are at present in the Province & to the
Person that victualled them at the same time desiring those
Gentlemen to repair hither & bring with them such Books
Papers & Accounts relative to those Troops as should be in
their possession & might serve to shew what arrears of Pay
are still due to the Officers & Men or their Representatives &
what Ballance is yet owing to M^r Ross the Gentleman that
victualled them. Colonel Dagworthy the Officer who com-
manded the Maryland Corps, Captains Joshua Beall & Francis
Ware who had each of them a Company, the Representative
of Capt A Beall who died about two years ago & the Attorney
in fact of Capt Pearis who commanded our fifth Company (he
as are also most of the surviving Subalterns being at this time
absent from the Province) having in Consequence of my noti-
fication met here yesterday produced to me their several
Vouchers to shew what Claims each of them have, & as some
of them cannot without very great Inconvenience & Loss take
such a Journey it was agreed among them that the Colonel
together with M^r Ross should forthwith proceed to New York
& wait on Your Excellency or such Gentlemen as you may be
pleased to refer them to with the Muster Rolls & such other
Vouchers as may support their respective Claims ; in Compli-
ance therefore with the Gentlemen's joint Request I beg
Leave to introduce to Your Excellency's Knowledge the two