Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 429

you on the Subject. I have already appointed M^r Rob^t Har-
rison Sheriff of Dorchester County & M^r Daniel Chamier
recommended to His Ldp by M^r Janssen will be appointed
Sheriff of Baltimore before the End of this Month In a Letter
I address't to His Ldp the 29^th Ult I informed him that the
Death of the late Rector of S^t James's Parish in this County
about sixteen or eighteen Miles only from Annapolis had
given me an Opportunity of Offering M^r Alien a better Living
than this, for the Thirty p^r poll & two Glebes belonging to it
will as Tobacco is now likely to sell (that Parish producing
some of the best Tob^o in the Country) fall very little if at all
short of £300 sterling a year, he has not yet taken an Induc-
tion for it but only a Lycence to officiate intending thereby to
receive the Income 'of both Parishes unless the Vestries or
Parishioners should oppose his doing so, which if they should
he will I apprehend be sorry to have made the Experiment.
Col^o Lloyds Accounts to Sept^r 1766 are now ready for signing
& as soon as he meets Us here after our Return from Frederick
we shall fix the Plan for the future Management of His Ldps
Revenues the Substance of which we have already agreed on
& committed to writing. When the Gentlemen of the Council
meet again I shall communicate to them what you write on
the Subject of the Two Houses Appeal to the King, the
inclosed Gazette will shew you how the Managers of our State
Lottery are puzled to get off their Ticketts & that they have
again postponed the Drawing of it. I will communicate to
the Gentⁿ of the Council what you say of M^r Capel Hanbury's
recommending his Partner to be joined with him as a Trustee
under our Paper Money Act & advise you of their Sentiments
thereon by the first Opportunity. M^r Stewart the Clergyman
Mess^rs Hanburys recommended is employed by the Rector of
S^t Johns in Baltimore as a Curate should he behave well he
may expect preferment but at this time there are several with-
out Parishes that brought Recommendations from His Ldp,
besides a M^r Bouchier of Virginia whom at the Request of M^r
Tasker M^r Dan^l Dulany M^r Addison & other Gentlemen I
promised three years ago to recommend to His Ldp for a
small Living in this part of the Province when any such should
become vacant in order that Gentlemen may have an Oppor-
tunity of having their Sons educated by him he having given
great satisfaction in the Capacity of a Teacher of Languages
&c I shall cause diligent Enquiry to be made after the Woman
concerning whom Lord Strange wrote to His Ldp & if any
Discovery is made will transmit a Certificate relative thereto
by the earliest Opportunity. Care will be taken that neither
M^r Edmiston nor any other of the Settlers in Nottingham
Township be disturbed in their Possessions & they need not

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