468 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

meet till pretty late in May I hope to receive before that time
His Ldps particular Instructions how to conduct Myself for the
Lower House will certainly then take up the Dispute as both
M^r Worthington & M^r Johnson are warm about it & have con-
siderable Influence amongst the Members. You will see by
the inclosed Papers called the Pennsylva^a Farmers Letters
which are republished in all the Colonies how solicitous some
People are to rouze once more the Resentment of the Americans
against the Mother Country on Account of the Act of Parlia-
ment imposing a Duty on Glass &c & That suspending the
Legislative Power of New York, but they have not hitherto
had any great Effect nor do I think they will unless some
other Act of a similar nature should be made at the next
Session. I am apprehensive from the Accounts given us in
the last Penns^a Gazette that we shall not be long without
another Indian War. They have it seems been for some time
very much discontented & I wish a cruel Murder that was
very lately committed on Ten of them in Pennsylvania might
not at once provoke them to commence Hostilities. A parcel
of Refugees & Out-Laws from the several Provinces have
from time to time resorted to & made Settlements at a Place
called Red-Stone Creek in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania
beyond the Allegany Mountain contrary to His Majesty's
Proclamation, they have been ordered off both by the Gov^r of
Pennsylvania & the Commandant at Pittsburg but signified in
answer that they were determined to remain there. This 'tis
said the Indians have complained of as an Encroachment on
their Lands & tis said that General Gage is to send a Detach-
ment of the Kings Troops to assist the Government of Penn-
sylvania to break up the Settlement.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley Dated Annapolis 24^th
Feb^ry 1768
D^r S^r
The Bristol Ship on board which I sent some Days ago
Letters for His Ldp & also two Address't to yourself having
been so unlucky as to run aground & to be by that Accident
detained till this time I have a very early opportunity to
acknowledge my Receipt of the two Letters you favoured me
with the 10^th & 24^th of Novem^r last. It really makes me
unhappy to find that my appointing M^r Walter Dulany Com-
missary General last summer on the Death of M^r Golds-
borough was a Step His Ldp by no means approved of &
that in appointing M^r Plater to succeed as Naval Officer of
Potuxent I acted likewise contrary to His Ldp's Intention ; I