360 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk.III

Courts for the five best pieces of Linen that shall have been
made in each County by White Persons being free People &
Residents in the County where such Bounty may be claimed.
The General Assembly of the Province having met here soon
after I received Your Ldps Letter I thought it my Duty to
lay the same before them & as from the Circumstance of the
Members residing in the several Counties into which the
Province is divided they could not be strangers to the Pursuits
& Employments of the People I desired them to give me all
the Information they could with respect to the Subject of Your
Ldps Enquiry & I take the liberty to transmit to Your Ldps
the answer which the Lower House of Assembly have there-
upon given me. Should any manufactures be hereafter set
up here or any Encouragement be given for Carrying them
on I will not fail to advise Your Ldps thereof & shall punctu-
ally obey any other of Your Ldp's Commands. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Commissioners of Stamps.]

To the Commissioners for managing His Majesty's Stamp
Duties in Great Britain
Annapolis 9 Decem^r 1766.
Gentlemen
In pursuance of Orders from the Lds of the Treasury com-
municated to me by a Letter from Grey Cooper Esq^r bearing
Date the 5^th of May last I wrote to the Commanding Officer
of His Majesty's Ships on the Virginia Station desiring him
to send for & convey to England three Boxes of Stamp't
Paper which had been landed here by Captain Brown from
on board His Majesty Sloop Hawke but I was never favoured
with any answer to my Letter ; & as Their Ldps require me
to forward to you in the most safe & expeditious manner I
can all such Packages of Stamp't Parchment & Paper as might
have been left in this Province I thought it my Duty (no better
Opportunity offering) to send the abovementioned three
Boxes of Paper to England in a Merchant Ship & have
accordingly shipt them in the Brandon of which Henry
M^cLachlan is Master & James Christie Merchant of London
Owner to whom therefore on the Vessels Arrival you will be
pleased to send for them. I am Gentⁿ

[Sharpe to Board of Trade.]

To the Lords of Trade the 10^th of Dec^r 1766.
My Lds.
I herewith transmit to your Ldps a Bond that was on the
24^th Day of Nov^r last delivered to Me by John Penn Esq^r