Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. ' 485

to consider the Affair having communicated to each of them
the Substance of what you wrote to Me relative to the several
Claimants. M^r Dulany tells me that he thinks it was suggested
when a Suit was depending some years ago in the Provincial
Court between Persons contending about a Tenement on that
Mannour that there was an Illegitimacy in the Pedigree of a
M^r Plunket who was set up as Heir at Law & he seems at
present to be of Opinion that neither of the Claimants you
mention will be able to recover on a Suit brought in the Pro-
vince. A Day or two after I had sent on board the Letter I
address't to you the 24^th of Feb^ry I had the pleasure to receive
One from His Ldp bearing Date the 2^d of December, & have
since been favoured with another from His Ldp by a Ship
that arrived here the 8^th Ult after a Passage of seventeen
Weeks. I have now done myself the honour to write to His
Ldp in answer to both, & have at the same time remitted His
Ldp Seconds of Bills of Exchange amounting to £2569 311 3/4
Firsts of which will be presented to him by M^r Jordan who is
already gone to Virginia in order to embark there for Eng-
land. From M^r Jordan His Ldp will likewise receive an
Account of the Proceedings of the Commissioners whom His
Ldp was pleased to appoint to examine & settle His Agents
Accounts, & also a Report of what has been done by us under
the Commission impowering us to sell his several Mannours;
but lest any Accident should happen to the Ship in which M^r
Jordan takes his Passage M^r Dulany & I have thought proper
by this Opportunity to transmit such a State of the Sales of
the Mannours as will shew His Ldp at one View how much
Land has been already sold, at what price, the Amount of
Deposits or Payments already made by the Purchasers, Amount
of Disbursements for surveying &c. the Amount of Bills of
Exchange remitted to this time & the Sums to be received &
remitted hereafter. I shall likewise inclose you in order that
you may lay it before His Ldp a Plan or Draft of a large
Tract of Land which as His Ldp seemed desirous to have
other Mannours laid out I have caused to be surveyed &
reserved for that purpose. It lies as you will observe just
beyond Fort Cumberland extending Northwards from the
Bottom or Low Land lying on Potowmack to the Line that
divides Pennsylvania from this Province & Westward so far
as to include the Eastern Ridges of the Allegany Mountain.
Some of the Land included as I am informed very good, other
Parcells indifferent & a good deal hilly & broken, the Reason
I ordered so large a Quantity to be included was that it might
be at His Ldp's Choice to have either One or more Mannours
laid out & because the good Land does not lye contiguous
but in parcels, a quantity of good Land so large as four or

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