314 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

write to His Ldp the 29^th ult I intimated to him what M^r
Dulany M^r Jordan & I had done or were doing under the
Commission he had been pleased to send us: Col^o Lloyds
Clerks who had made up his Agents Accounts attended us a
Day or two afterwards with some Books & Papers which we
set about to examine but could not go through by reason that
M^r Jordan was obliged to go down with his Ship to Virginia
whence he is not yet returned & M^r Dulany was on the 4^th
Inst taken so ill at one of our Meetings that he was obliged
to break off & indeed for several Days afterwards was con-
fined to his House, we shall however as soon as M^r Jordan
comes back proceed in the Examination & I hope go through
with it without any farther Interruption. I am &c.

Original.

[Capt. Brown to Sharpe.]

Hawke, at Annapolis 16^th June 1766
Sir.
The Honble Cap^t S^t John of His Majesties Ship Guarland,
having directed me by Order of the 7^th Ins^t to make Applica-
tion to your Excell^y to receive on shore the Stampt Papers,
from His Maj^s Sloop under my Command, she being order'd
to New York on immediate Service, I beg you will be pleased
to let me know where, and when it will be proper to Land
them I am
Sir
Your Excell^ys
Most ^Obedt hble. Serv^t
Jⁿ Brown
Cap^t of the Sloop of War Hawke

To his Excellency Governor of Maryland

Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Conway.]

To General Conway. Annapolis June 27. 1766
Sir
Having lately had the satisfaction to receive the Letter you
were pleased to favour me with the 31^st of March last inclosing
Copies of the Two Acts of Parliament which had then passed
One for securing the just Dependency of the Colonies on the
Mother Country the other for the Repeal of the Act granting
certain Stamp Duties in America I now do Myself the honour
to acknowledge my Receipt thereof & also of the Copy there-
with transmitted of the Resolutions of the House of Commons
which together with your Letter I shall lay before the
Assembly of this Province as soon as they meet which how-