Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 403

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]

July 20^th 1767
D^r S^r
Your Excellencys several Letters of 3^d March to L^d Balti-
more and myself & Subsequent favors of the 11^th of the same
Month are now lying before me.
All difficultys with M^r Calvert are, I hope, by this time
removed & perhaps it may not be without its use hereafter
that they have been started
Your Excellency is pleased to refer me to your former Cor-
respondence with M^r Calvert as to the Proceedings about
Talbot Manor, But his Papers were left in so much Confu-
sion, and so few of them have ever come to my hands, that
you must Impute the, perhaps Impertinent, trouble given you
in this and other business to the want of means for my obtain-
ing better Information. Far was it from my Intentions to
Insinuate the least Inattention to this concern, But, receiving
applications about it from every quarter, and finding some
Steps had been taken, I was unwilling to be the only Person
in the dark, or to leave your Excellency unapprized of the
motions of the Enemy. In fact, All Partys have applyed to
his Lordship, and seem well Inclined to Adjust matters upon
reasonable terms, and by a lucky accident some of them have
been Introduced to me for advice and assistance in the way
of my Profession, without Previously knowing my situation,
or relation to his Lordship. From the Agents of W^m & John
Crofton the Claimants under Talbots Will (and who in 1760
appointed M^r James Haliday of Queen Ann County their
Attorney) I have received a short Case and affidavit of which
you have Copys Enclosed (N^o 1 & 2) and have been likewise
furnished with the Proceedings in the Ejectment brought
upon the Demise of Thomas ag^st Hamilton in 1752 and the
objections then taken to Talbots Conviction, as having been
in Virginia and not in Maryland, and the Determination of
the Court ag^st the Lessor of the Plt, who, I Presume, never
proceeded in this appeal. This seems to have been a Deter-
mination upon the merits, and to have cut off his Lordships
Title Root and Branch, which I have always understood to
Depend upon the Conviction ; and, upon the supposition of
Talbots Dying seized, the Croftons have derived their Claim
under his will. Maypother has likewise been with me as
agent for some of the Croftons, and as having Obtained some
Interest by Purchase from others of them, and he seems sick of
his pursuit in Maryland, and would gladly make Terms with
his Lordship for himself, at the expence even of his Princi-
pals, in order to reimburse past Charges, by obtaining a bene-
ficial Grant or Lease of the Manor or part of it to himself, but

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