462 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

M^r Booth himself never sayd it was necessary, but that it
would be better & so it would if all the powers in Europe had
Guaranteed it. M^r Hall wonders much, that an Act was not
obtain'd or sollicitated, but it was then absolutely impossible
for I had enterd into fresh Agreements to fix the Boundarys
of the Province with the Proprietors of Pensylvania, and
everything would have been thrown into the utmost Confu-
sion the Boundarys are fixed & as my father nor Grand father
ever had an act of Parlament, I can have no more occasion for
it than they had. nor am I the least apprehensive that any
Court of Judicature in Europe will admitt the father to settle
& unsettle, to give & take again an estate from the son &
heir were there the clearest reason to see he intended it, &
much less from the mistake of an ignorant Country Attorney,
w^ch in the main decides nothing.
I hope y^r excellency takes care to enter properly, & deposit
with security, all papers &c. &^c relative to this affair, as also
any memorandum you may yourself collect relative thereto.
I desire y^r Excellency will shew what I have herein written
relative to this affair to M^r Dulany, since I would have him
acquainted with the minutest of what occasionally occurs to
me hereon. I have sent y^r Excellency herewith the second
Edition of a short Labor, w^h I have given to the public, &
the Map is very Exact, about the middle of next summer, I
hope to send you near forty Large Prints, w^ch are now engrav-
ing from various desighns w^h I brought to England with me
I observe in y^r Excellency's letter, the disposal of the Comis-
sarys office to M^r Walter Dulany, but I have not heard a word
from him or his Brother thereon, and y^r Excellency will for the
future observe the Contents of M^r Hamersleys letter relative
to such imediate & Capital Donations.
I am with
usual Esteem & freindship
Your most humble
& obed Servant
F. Baltimore

Letter Bk. V

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley. Annapolis Jany. 2^d
1768.
D^r Sir
As I am to set off in a Day or two with M^r Dulany & M^r
Jordan for Charles & S^t Marys in order to set up to Sale His
Ldps several Mannours in these Counties & a Ship now load-
ing in Chester River for Bristol might perhaps sail before we
can return hither I shall leave this to be in such Case trans-