426 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

themselves. As another Ship will sail hence soon after we
come back I shall then do myself the honour to write to your
Ldp again & in the mean time remain with the greatest
Respect Your Ldps &c.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley. Annapolis 29^th Oct^r
1767. transmitted by Capt Hewitt.
Dr Sr
Not having had the satisfaction to receive any Letter from
you since I addressed One to you the 4^th of last Month I have
very little to trouble His Ldp or you about at present but I
have by this Opportunity remitted His Ldp the Firsts of
Thirty two Setts of Excha for the Sum of £1363 18 51/2 which
has been lately brought to me & the other Commissioners
most of them as a first Payment for Parcels of Ann Arundel
Mannour tho some of the Purchasers are yet to pay. Our
Voyage over the Bay to sell the Mannours in Kent & Queen
Annes Counties turned to little Account for we sold none of
the Kent Mannour & only 822 Acres of that in Queen Annes
County. In a few Days we are to take a Journey so far back
as Conegocheague in Frederick County in order to sell the
Mannour there on the 9^th of next Month if Purchasers should
offer, & the Beginning of Dec^r we are to attend again in
Baltimore County. I find by a Letter from Mess^rs Mason &
Dixon who are running the Boundary Line between this Pro-
vince & Penns^a that they had the 2^d Inst extended it Two
Miles beyond the Monongahela & were then preparing to
take an Observation there so that I imagine they must have
nearly run out their five Degrees of Longitude & hope they
will be at liberty to return to England soon after Christmass.
I am.

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Gov. Fauquier.]

Gov^r Fauquier Annapolis 30 Oct^r 1767.
Sir
One William Depriest alias William Williams who was
lately committed to the Custody of the Sheriff of Frederick
County in this Province (on Suspicion of having counterfeited
the Bills of Credit in Circulation here called Eight Dollar
Bills) having in a Confession he made upon being apprehended
given an Account of several Persons in the Western Parts of
Virginia that were concerned in the Scheme & who are
reported to have counterfeited & passed considerable sums in
Virginia I think it incumbent on me to send you a Copy of