Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 33

mation as you may imagine would induce him to make speedy
payment. Most sincerely wishing you a good Share of
Health & everything else you desire I am D^r S^r

[Sharpe to Gov. Hamilton.]

To Governor Hamilton. Annapolis the 15^th of March 1762.
Sir
As our Assembly's Meeting in Consequence of the Letters
I lately received from the Earl of Egremont & S^r Jeffery
Amherst will make it impossible for me & many others of our
Commissioners to be at Newcastle the first of next month I
wish you & the other Gentlemen who are appointed Commis-
sioners by the Proprietors of Pennsylvania would agree to put
off our Meeting till the middle of April by which time I hope
we shall be at liberty to attend you, the weather will then in
all probability permit the Surveyors to proceed which they
would not I suppose be prevailed on to do earlier in the
Season & we may perhaps before that time receive from Eng-
land the Instrument we wrote for from Newcastle last Oct^r If
you & the other Gentlemen at Phila^a agree to our proposal
Be so kind as to favour me with an answer by the Bearer or
the next post, but if you are averse to it I must beg the favour
of you to signify as much to me by Express that in such Case
some of our Commissioners may have notice to repair to
Newcastle by the Day to which they last adjourned. I take
this opportunity to send you the Agreement the Proprietors
have entered into for protracting the time limitted by the first
articles I am —

[Sharpe to Amherst.]

To General Amherst the 16^tb March 1762.
S^r
Col^o Dagworthy's being detained here two or three Days
by bad weather gives me an opportunity to acknowledge the
Receipt of your Excellency's Letter dated the 21^st of last
Month together with another from the Earl of Egremont
dated the 12^th of Dec^r when our Assembly meets which I pre-
sume they will do to Morrow or next Day & are about to pro-
ceed to Business I shall communicate to them the Contents of
both those Letters & press them to appropriate a particular
Sum for the Encouragement of such a Number of Men to
enlist into the Kings Regular Forces as you are pleased to
demand from this Province ; as soon as I am acquainted with
the Assembly's Resolution relative to this separate Matter I
will advise you thereof & Your Excellency may be assured

Letter Bk. III