422 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

Tho^s Penn thought fit to address to His Ldp they must have
been transmitted before the Governor could have received
any Letter or Instructions from the Proprietaries on the Sub-
ject & he might therefore perhaps have been more explicit to
the Secretary of State than they intended he should Be, tho I
do not apprehend a more general answer could have been
thought satisfactory. As I presume that either the Letters
which I addressed to Ld Shelburn & inclosed to Your Ldp
the 15^th of June or the Duplicates that were transmitted by
the packet from New York have before this time been deliv-
ered at the Secretary of States Office It would I conceive be
quite improper to send His Ldp any other on the Subject but
for Your Ldps satisfaction I shall send you inclosed Copies of
every thing I transmitted to Ld Shelburn except the Acts of
Assembly mention'd in my Letter which Your Ldp knows are
printed in the Collection of Laws lately published by M^r Bacon
& in Your Ldps Hands. Should Your Ldp upon considering
the answers Governor Penn & I have now returned to the
Secretary of State's Letters think we have in any respect
been too particular I shall hope to be favoured with an Instruc-
tion or Intimation how far Your Ldp would have me comply
with any Requisitions that may be hereafter made & I shall
most exactly conform to Your Ldps pleasure & Inclination.
When I last address't myself to Your Ldp I intimated that I
was going with M^r Dulany & M^r Jordan to Baltimore Kent &
Queen Annes Counties & did not then expect to return hither
till we had set up all the Mannours in those Counties but as
there were no Bidders for that in Baltimore so that we were
not detained there longer than one Day & M^r Jordan wanted
to return hither before he went to Queen Anns & Kent
Counties I came back with him & by that means have an
earlier opportunity than I expected of remitting Your Ldp
sundry Bills of Exchange which have been paid by some of
the people that purchased parts of Ann Arundel Mannour
amounting together as p^r the inclosed List to £1766 14 91/2
& for the Residue Your Ldp may expect to have Bills
remitted by the first Ship that shall sail hence after we return
from Kent & Queen Anns Counties for which We shall sett
off next Monday Morning. The Reason I inclose a List of
the Bills of Exchange herein remitted & not a Minute of the
Sales as heretofore is that several of the Purchasers have not
yet made their first payment & this Ship is just ready to sail.
Tho there were no Bidders for the Mannour in Baltimore at
this time we expect to sell part of it at least the next time it
is set up which will be the Beginning of Novem^r but by what
I can learn the Tenants in general are exceeding poor so that
few among them will be able to purchase the Tenements they
hold. I am &c