378 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk IV.

Instance of S^r Anthony Abdy your Ldp desires M^r Robert
Harrison of Dorchester County might be appointed the next
Sheriff of that County I have noted him accordingly for that
Office. Upon the Receipt of your Ldp's Instruction for
calling M^r Walter Dulany to the Council I gave that Gentle-
man Notice thereof & he was qualified a few Days afterwards
so that there now remains only One vacant Seat which I hope
will be soon filled with some other of the Gentlemen I took
the liberty to mention to your Ldp in my Letter of the 22^d of
October last. As I shall by this Conveyance write a long
Letter to M^r Hamersley, & have probably already tired your
Ldp with this I shall only add that with the utmost Respect I
remain &c.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of 10^th Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis
March 1767.
Dr Sr
M^r Jordan having told me that a Ship of his will be ready
to sail from Virginia for London very shortly I embrace the
Opportunity to transmit an Answer to the two Letters you
were pleased to write to me the 29^th of Sept^r & 8^th of Nov^r last
no Conveyance except by the Packet having before offered
since I wrote to you the 8^th of December. I am very sorry to
find that His Ldp was displeased at the Letters being wrote
to M^r Calvert & that both His Ldp & you considered it as if
the Commissioners asked M^r Calverts Leave to sell Ann
Arundel Mannour for say you "if he had the least Colour of
Right his Consent was not to be asked & if he had not the
Requisition was unnecessary" but I flatter myself that when
His Ldp & you consider what induced the Commissioners to
make such Application to M^r Calvert you will see the Step in
a very different light & think no more was done than was
absolutely necessary & proper. I have hinted to His Ldp
the Reasons that induced the Commissioners to advertize that
Mannour first for Sale, when we agreed to do so we were so-
far from having any Suspicion of M^r Calverts doing any thing
to obstruct the Sale or deter Persons from Bidding that M^r
Dulany said he had understood from M^r Calvert himself that
he had given up all Pretensions to it but some Weeks after
the Advertisement had been published We were told that M^r
Calvert had cautioned People against purchasing & in short
were given to understand that unless he should publickly
relinquish the Claim he had set up or we could produce all
the Family Settlements which had been made & satisfy People
who should come to bid that neither M^r Calvert nor any one
else had any the most distant Pretensions to the Mannour It