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Me, & it was with the utmost Reluctance that I bereft myself
of so great a Support, tho Ties of Blood Friendship & Esteem
calld on me unanswerably to shew the Consideration 1 have
to M^r Eden's Worth & Relationship. Whatever Service it is
in my power to offer your Excellency I do with the sincerest
heart imaginable & before I left England saw your worthy
Brother the Master of the Temple expressly on that Account
who was greatly concerned in Mind on your behalf: I was
little less so myself for I am far from changeable in my Friend-
ships for any one & much less so from so tried & steady a
one as yourself. I wish your Excellency all Health & Happi-
ness intreating you to consider on some manner wherein I
may approve the sincerity with which I shall ever acknowledge
your Services to Me
I am with the greatest Esteem &
Consideration your most humble Serv^t
F Baltimore
His Excellency
Hor^o Sharpe Esq^r

[Horsey to Sharpe.]

Somerset County October 15. 1768
Governor Sharpe Sir
I Beg Leave to let you know the trebles of the Poor
unhappy people of Coventry Parish it his now at this time in
Confution with a mob and the Saportters of it as far as I
Can learn is William Allen Lettelton Dennis and thomas
Howard the mob partey Seames now to be Def to Law I
happened to be at a majastrats the other Day when sum of
them wheare brote before him, I Heard sum of them say that
Day if theay where Boend over theay whoold give no Security
if theay Had a Church theay whoold Have no prison ; the
Reverrent M^r Hewes after being Hear som time very quiatly
he whent to Annemissick Chappell and theiar performed
Devine Servis twise and the People Seamed very quiat and
Contented and the next Sunday he whent to Rehoboth Church
and performed Devine Servis their, but when he whent to the
Upper Chappell in Allens and Thomas Howards Naboor
whood thear whas a large mob for which the pason whent of
the two young men that whent with him whas you sed very
ill and Detained som time by the mob upon their Return home
theay met Lettelton Dennis a going to the Chappell when he
Heard the pason whas gone of whanted to persue him with
Howens, the mob Partty frettening Severall of us with Destruc-
tion that whoold not fly in the face of the Law as well as
theay Sir I Beg for God Sake you will Releave us som way or

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