Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 313

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of 3^d Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis 1 5^th
June 1766 transmitted by Captain Lane.
Sir
Having wrote to you so lately as the 28^th of last Month by
a Vessel bound to Bristol I have little to trouble you with at
present but hearing that a Ship is on her Departure from
Potuxent for London I embrace the Opportunity to transmit
with the great Seal appendant Copies of the several Acts of
Assembly that were made here in Sept^r & December last
which will I hope meet with His Ldps Approbation. Inclosed
with the Memorandum concerning William Woodbridge
which you lately sent me you will find a Certificate of his
Death signed by the Naval Officer of this Port which you will
I presume send to M^r Swinton or the Person by whom the
Memorandum was presented to His Ldp. In a Letter I
addressed to M^r Calvert your predecessor the 28^th Feb^ry 1765

I told him that I had sometime before promised M^r Leeds the

present Clerk of Talbot County who is one of our Commis-
sioners & has merited well of both His Ldp & Me that I
would ask M^r Calverts Consent for him to resign his Clerk-
ship in favour of his Son in Law M^r John Bozman who is a
very deserving man & that I hoped therefore he would
comply with M^r Leeds's Desire & give him a Letter to that
purport to M^r Dulany which might be presented as soon as
M^r Leeds may think proper" As M^r Leeds was never
favoured with such a Letter the Change has not been yet
made but as he is still solicitous it should & has by his long
& frequent Attendance on the Affair of the Divisional Lines
almost ever since the Agreement was entered into by His
Ldp's Father endeavoured to render the Government here
acceptable Service I flatter Myself he will not be refused a
Favour which hath been often granted to old Clerks of
Counties & to three or four within these few years who had
not I think so good pretensions as the Gentleman on whose
Behalf I make this Application. In my last Letter I informed
you that after making eight new Laws a List of which I
inclosed you the Assembly had broke up on the 27^th of last
Month: & that we had received a Copy of the Act of Parlia-
ment repealing the Stamp Act; As this was an Event so
anxiously desired: You will not I suppose be surprized to find
that there has been publick Rejoicings & Illuminations in most
of the Towns of any Consequence throughout these Provinces,
but as that is now all over Things seem to have returned
again into the old Channel & even our Stamp Master M^r
Hood who kept away so long has ventured back & keeps
Store again in this City. In a Letter I had the honour to

Letter Bk. IV