514 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Proceeded to extremitys, but it is the peculiar happiness of
Maryland, and I hope will still continue so, to Escape the
general Infection tho' it Spreads ever so nearly.
By the Information given us by M^r Penn all Apprehensions
of an Indian War seem at present removed & it is much to be
hoped no fresh Cause of Complaint may be furnished those
Restless & Revengeful Neigbours.
I had wrote thus far when I reced your Excellency's further
favors of the I^st & 19^th of April the former Conveying the
Certificate for Lord Strange of the Death of Mary Brereton
(which I have forwarded to him) and likewise the sketch of an
Instruction as to Allen's Lands and the several Printed Papers
between the Bystander and Querist. M^r Jordan is arived
with the several other Papers which are now under his Lord-
ships Consideration together with the Survey of the New
Tract of Land laid out by your Excellency beyond Fort Cum-
berland, Estimated at 96.610 Acres, which his Lordship will
be glad to see Disposed of as proper opportunitys offer in
such a manner as shall appear to his Board of Officers most
Advantagious to his Interest, & to their Consideration and
advice he desires it may be referred at the same time not
seeing himself any good end that so great a reserve can
answer & rather wishing only 10.000 or 12.000 Acres at most
to be withheld, and the rest to be taken up by Patent upon
Payment of Quit Rent. You cannot be too anxious to prevent
an Indian War by taking every step to remove all their
Grievances Real or Imaginary. It is hoped The Vestry are
pleased with their new Rector and that the Paper War is
Dropped with the Occasion of it ; the Appointment of M^r
Edmiston is particularly Agreable to his Lordship. Tho' M^r
Burne might be a good Justice and Law Writer as well as a
Divine, those are qualitys which do not fall to every Brother
of the Cloth, nor are they to be attained by Skimming the
Surface only as Collected by a Compiler. You see I am far
from taking the Aggressors part, but all the knowledge and
Abilitys in the World would have been ill Employed by his
Lordship's ffriend, in Attacking the first Officers of the State
so Justly Entitled to and Possessed of the greatest share of
his Confidence.
His Lordship has perused with great pleasure M^r Dulany's
Performance in support of his right of Patronage which always
Carrys Conviction with it as every work of that Gentleman's
does and he much approves your appointing M^r Hughes to
the Rectory of Coventry Parish and desires he may be sup-
ported in it.
I have laid before his Lordship D^r Stewarts Petition which
he thinks very reasonable and is happy in an opportunity of