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let the Law dispose of the Income, & I really at present think
it would be paying the People too great a Complim^t to con-
sent to the Division imediately but Your Excellency under-
stands the genius & Temper of the People better than I. I
have the honour to be Sir Your Excellencys most oblig'd
& obed^t humble Serv^t
B Allen
Frederick Town
June 6^th 1768.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis 15^th
June 1768 Transmitted by Captain Purdye
D^r Sir
Being told that there is a Ship at the Mouth of Choptank
ready to sail for London 1 embrace the Opportunity to inform
you that I had a few Days ago the satisfaction to receive from
Philadelphia the few Lines you were so kind as to write to me
the 27 of March advising me of an Event of which I was not
the less anxious to hear for being confident that it would come
to pass & I flatter myself that I shall by the next Opportunity
be assured by you that the Uneasiness this Affair must have
given His Ldp is entirely at an End & that he is again tran-
quil & happy. Lest a Letter I wrote to you the 27^th of last
Month should not have been put on board the Vessel by
which I intended it should be transmitted I now inclose you a
Duplicate by which you will see that immediately on the
Death of M^r Bacon Rector of All Saints Parish in Frederick
County I gave M^r Allen an Induction to that Parish where-
upon he set off immediately to take Possession but by a Letter
I have since received from him which I likewise transmit you
I find the People there solicitous to have the Parish divided
violently opposed his taking possession of the Church & obliged
him to quit it before he could go thro the Service he had begun
to perform. As he has wrote in such a hurry & Agitation &
I have not been yet able to get more particular & certain
Information of the Vestry's & People's proceedings I cannot
pretend to give you any farther Intelligence at present but
you may depend on my Communicating to you my Sentiments
as soon as possible after I shall be able to learn more of the
matter & in the mean time shall advise M^r Allen on his Return
hither to take such Steps as shall appear to me to be most
likely to remove the strong Prejudices those People have
taken up against him. The Members of the Lower House
have not that I can learn taken any Notice as yet of the ques-
tion about Pluralities but have it in Contemplation to frame a

Letter Bk. V