522 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

to do very shortly several of them being already printed.
You will see by the inclosed Gazettes that Ld Hillsboroughs
Circular Letter relative to that of the Massachusetts Assembly
has been considered in pretty much the same light in the
Northern Colonies as it was by our Assembly, but at Boston
they have indeed gone very great Lengths & seem methinks
ready for the most violent Measures. In Virginia too as you
will see the Council have joined the Representatives of the
People in their Remonstrances against the late Acts of Parlia-
ment & really the Sentiments they avow seem to be enter-
tained in all the Colonies tho the Assembly of Pennsyl^a in
hopes their Silence on the present Occasion will recommend
them to the favour of Government & be of Service to them in
their Contest with the Proprietaries have remained quiet &
declined taking any Step in Consequence of the Bostoneers
Exhortation. 1 shall recommend to the Care of M^r Anderson
to be herewith sent or delivered to you Collections of all the
Acts of Assembly now in force within this Government, the
Acts of the late Session excepted which if His Ldp approves
thereof you will be pleased to have conve'yed to the Earl of
Hillsborough's Office together with the Letter addressed to
him of which I inclose a Copy. Since M^r Jordan left us M^r
Dulany & I have sold 2165 3/4 Acres of Mannour Land & are
on the 3^d of next Month to attend at Baltimore in order to
sell some more if Purchasers offer, by some early Conveyance
afterwards I shall remit His Ldp Bills for the first Deposit on
what is already or may be then disposed of. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Copy of a Letter to Ld Baltimore. Annapolis 25^th July 1768.
My Ld
Since I did myself the honour to write to your Ldp the 23^d
of last Month I have received Letters from M^r Hamersley
bearing Date the 28^th of March & I^st of April, in answer to
the former I have now wrote a long Letter to M^r Hamersley
to be by him laid before your Ldp together with several
Papers I have therewith transmitted so that I do not trouble
your Ldp on those Subjects, but as I perceive the latter Letter
was wrote by your Ldps express order purposely to introduce
to Me M^r Hackman a young Gentleman whom your Ldp is
desirous to have provided for I take the liberty in answer
thereto to inform your Ldp that your pleasure with respect to
him will be fulfilled as soon as any place becomes vacant for
which he is qualified & of Age to act in it. In the mean time
I have put him under the Care & Instruction of a Lawyer
here to read in his Office engaging myself to defray the