490 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

Auditing the late Agents Accounts & selling your Ldps Man-
nours. As M^r Jordan will present to your Ldp our joint
Reports together with the Accounts & sundry Remarks &
will explain to your Ldp any Matter relative thereto which
might not be sufficiently distinct or clear, I shall not trouble
your Ldp with anything on that Subject & as I have by a Ship
bound from this Province to London which will probably sail
before M^r Jordan can leave Virginia done myself the honour to
answer the Letter your Ldp was pleased to favour me with
the 2^d of Dec^r last & have also wrote fully to your Ldp & M^r
Hamersley on many matters I shall not intrude farther on
your Ldp's Time at present than to assure your Ldp that I
remain with the utmost Respect My Ld.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley Dated Annapolis 19
April 1768
Sir
A Ship of M^r Andersons which is just ready to sail hence
for London & will I expect be at Sea before M^r Jordan can
leave Virginia you will receive a long Letter & large Packet
together with one address't to His Ldp I have therefore
nothing particular to trouble either His Ldp or you with by
M^r Jordan by whom I expect this will be delivered to you as I
shall commit it to the Care of a young Gentleman that is
going hence To Morrow with an Intention to take his Passage
to England in M^r Jordans Ship. As M^r Jordan takes home
with him a Copy of the Agents Accounts that have been
under our Examination to the 29 of Sept^r last also an Account
of the Mannour Lands already sold & of the Money received
for the same together with the best Information we could pro-
cure with regard to the Mannours I did not think it necessary
to trouble His Ldp or you with any thing on those Subjects ;
In Consequence of His Ldps Commission to M^r Dulany &
Myself bearing Date the 24^th of Nov^r last we have again
advertised the Mannours for Sale on the 17^th of next Month
& in pursuance of His Ldps Instructions constituting a Board
of Officers, they have already had a Meeting & will meet
again at the Revenue Office during the Provincial Court & as
often afterwards as might be expedient to carry into Execu-
tion His Ldps Instructions of the 8^th of Oct^r 1761 & such
others as may be hereafter given relative to the management
of His Ldp's Revenues, the Affair of the Lines is not yet
closed for Want of a new Commission but as soon as one
comes to hand the Commissioners have agreed to meet &
make their Return. I am &c.