Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 421

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis 4^th
Sept^r 1767.
Sir
As I have not been favoured with any Letter from you
since I addressed One to you the 27^th of July I have nothing
particular to trouble you about at present but embrace the
Opportunity to inform His Ldp that we have at last sold a
considerable part of Ann Arundel Mannour viz 7104 Acres
for the Sum of £8919 1 9 3/4 & very probably We shall be able
to sell the Residue being 3576 Acres at private Sale tho as it
is of inferiour quality We must be content with a less price
for it. In order that you may be able to compleat the List of
Livings that I lately sent you I now inclose another short List
of the few whose Value had not been ascertained to Me when
I last wrote to you. You will see by the inclosed Gazettes
that a Kind of paper War hath been commenced here between
M^r Ringgold Consignee of the Convicts from Bristol & some
Gentlemen who are Friends to our Quarantine Act in which
I think the former makes a poor figure & I suppose begins to
wish he had not so officiously beyond All the Rest of the
Consignees & Dealers in imported Servants stood forth as a
Champion in so bad a Cause.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis10^th Sept^r 1767.
My Lord
In the Letter I addressed to Your Ldp the Beginning of
this Month I told Your Ldp that I had desired Governor
Penn to inform Me what answers he had returned to the Sec-
retary of State's Circulary Letters of last Decem^r & January
& as the Governor has since been so kind as to comply with
my Request I embrace this Opportunity to transmit to Your
Ldp a Copy of his Letter together with Copies of the Letters
& Estimate he transmitted to Ld Shelburn (tho you will be
pleased to observe they were intended only for my own satis-
faction) by which Your Ldp will see that he has also given as
particular & explicit answers to the several Requisitions
made by the Secretary of State as was in his power & indeed
as I have done except with respect to the Annual Amount of
the Proprietaries Quit Rents which I understand that they
themselves do not know the Amount of by reason that no
exact Rent Rolls have been kept in that province nor the
Rents regularly collected. As Governor Penn's Letters to
Ld Shelburn bear Date but a fortnight after that which M^r

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