336 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

& their Neighbours who are able to purchase seem to think it
would be ungenerous to purchase over their Heads as they
term it ; we shall however agreeable to your Ldps Instruc-
tions set up all the Lands to Sale a Second Time & tho no Pur-
chasers should then offer & your Ldps Expectations be in that
respect disappointed you will at least have the satisfaction of
receiving from us in the End a correct Platt & Rentall of
every Mannour for which your Ldp has hitherto in vain
applied to your Agent who really has been extremely deficient
in that part of his Duty. In a Letter I wrote to M^r Sec^y
Calvert the 10^th of June 1765 about various Matters I told
him that he would find inclosed two Petitions to your Ldp One
of them from M^r Tho^s Jennings a Lawyer praying leave to
escheat a Lot in this Town which lately belonged to M^r Kim-
bold & on which is a House that might perhaps with the Lot
be sold for £300 Stg: the other praying an Escheat Patent for
a Lot & House in Baltimore Town which belonged to the
Petitioners Father who had died before he was naturalized &
therefore could not devise: In the same Letter I desired in
Case your Ldp should on perusal of the Petitions be inclined
to grant what was applied for that he would be pleased to
signify to the Agent on what Terms he might sell the said
Lots & Improvements & to send him a particular Order for
that Purpose for otherwise as they lye within Towns he would
not be at liberty to receive Composition Money for them & it
would I apprehend be necessary to insert the Substance of
such Order in the Preamble of the Patents. As I have not
My Ld been yet favoured with any answer to the part of my
Letter I have quoted & by reason thereof Nothing has been
yet done with respect to either of the Houses I take the
liberty to apply once more for your Ldps Orders relative
thereto & it will be your Ldps Interest to communicate them
to the Agent or Me as soon as possible so that they may be
sold or leased. As M^r Hamersley will lay before your Ldp
what I have wrote to him on the Subject of the Boundary
Lines I will not trouble your Ldp thereon farther than to
intimate that if your Ldp & the Proprietors of Pennsylvania
are desirous to have the East & West Line extended at this
time so far westward as the most Western Limits of Penn-
sylvania it will be absolutely necessary that a new Commission
be sent us for the last will expire the last Day of Dec^r next.
The Office your Ldp directed should be built here as a
Repositary for Rentalls Agents Accounts & other Books &
Papers relating to your Revenue is now building & will I
expect be finished early in the Spring, so that the Agent
might the ensuing Summer make use of it. Having I am
afraid already tired your Ldps Patience & either in this Letter