536 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

18^th & 20^th of July also One from His Ldp bearing Date the
30^th of that month together with a Commission from His Ldp
appointing M^r Mathew Tilghman his Agent & Receiver
General, a notification of M^r Jordans Nephew being Keeper
of the Western Shore Rent Roll & His Lps Orders to Me to
introduce M^r Tilghman & his Son in Law M^r Carroll to the
Council ; There were likewise a Couple of Letters from M^r
Jordan, a Kind of Commission from His Ldp to that Gentle-
man appointing him Supervisor of His Ldp's Accounts Lands
& Revenues in & from the Province of Maryland & two
Instructions from His Ldp directing me to order Patents to
issue in M^r Jordan's Name for what remains unsold of
Conegocheague Manor & the Reserve containing together
upwards of 18000 Acres worth I suppose as many thousand
Pounds. I communicated to M^r Tilghman & M^r Carroll the
same Day Your Letters came to hand His Ldp's Instructions
respecting them & have since received the inclosed answers
by which you will see that M^r Carroll declined qualifying &
M^r Tilghman seems I think to be undetermined. I likewise
intimated by a Line to M^r Allen that His Ldp hath been
pleased to appoint him a Successor in the Agency so that he
might be prepared to deliver up such Books & Papers as it is
expedient the Agent should have possession of. When I laid
before such of the Board of Officers as happened to be in
Town the Notification of M^r Merewethers being appointed
Keeper of the Western Shore Rent Roll they gave it as their
opinion that he ought not to intermeddle with the Farmers
Accounts now examining or about to be settled viz to the 29^th
Sept^r last. As soon as that Business is dispatched Major
Jenifer will surrender up to M^r Merewether all the Rent Rolls
now in his Custody that the latter might make out the Farm-
ers Debt Books for the Current year. M^r Jordan tells me in
one of his Letters that M^r George Lee his Factor is to be
appointed Surveyor Gen^l of the Western Shore but as I have
no such Instruction from His Ldp it cannot I apprehend be
expected that I should take any Step in Consequence of M^r
Jordans Intimation. M^r Goldsborough the Attorney Gen^l
having when he was here last Week at the Provincial Court
resign'd that Office I thereupon ordered a Commission to be
made out for a M^r Jenings of this Place who by M^r Dulany's
Advice had been retained for His Ldp in that Cause of the
Manour in Baltimore claimed by M^r Brerewood & who has
for some time acted as Prosecutor in several of the County
Courts which the Attorney Gen^l himself did not attend : he is
I think equal in point of Abilities to any of the Bar that would
accept (for some refused) tho indeed I do not think him equal
to M^r Goldsborough & therefore wisht it had been agreeable