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to the latter to have continued. I understand from M^r Bordley
that he has received a Letter from M^r Edmund Jennings
advising him of Captain Eden's having purchased the House
in which I live & that some Workmen are sent from England
to repair it against Captain Eden's arrival, I shall therefore
begin to remove my Things out of it immediately that the
Workmen may not be delayed, for really they have a good
Deal to do, the House wanting many Repairs & the Offices
being in a very ruinous Condition.
It affords me great Satisfaction to be assured by My Lord
himself as well as by you that my Conduct in general during
the time I have had the honour to bear his Commission hath
met with his Approbation & that His Ldp still entertains a
favourable opinion of me. The Reason His Ldp condescends
to give for appointing me a Successor is very sufficient & sat-
isfactory, the Expectations Captain Eden had entertained
from the time he had made such an Alliance were natural &
extremely reasonable & I sincerely wish he may from their
being now fulfilled derive much Benefit & happiness. That
my Administration here was drawing to a Conclusion I had
great room to expect from many Hints M^r Jordan thought fit
to drop while he was in the Province nor was I at all concerned
thereat for really to speak my mind freely I had within these
two years met with some Rubs & had some Difficulties to
encounter that made me uneasy & which it is altogether need-
less to recount to any one not an entire Stranger to late
Transactions in the Province. Unluckily for me I have it
seems by your Letters taken a few Steps within that time
which chagrined His Ldp not a little. I mean the appointing
M^r Walter Dulany Commissary Gen^l Col^o Plater his Successor
in the Naval Office of Potuxent, the Rev^d M^r Allen His Ldp's
Agent in the stead of Col^o Lloyd who resigned & Major
Jenifer Keeper of the Western Shore Rent Roll. Had I in
making such Appointments been actuated more by private
Pique at others or by an overweening Fondness for Favour-
ites of my own His Ldp would have had good Reason to be
dissatisfied, but the Motives that govern'd me on those Occa-
sions were indeed of a very different Kind & the principal of
them was (as must have appeared to every Man in the Prov-
ince) really & truly no other than a Solicitude to fulfill what I
apprehended were His Ldps Intentions & Desires. As I have
in former Letters particularly in one bearing Date the 24^th of
Feb^ry last reminded you of some Passages in His Ldp's Instruc-
tions in M^r Calverts & your own Letters that as I thought
pointed out M^r Dulany & Col^o Plater for the Offices they now
respectively enjoy I shall at present only observe that was the
Naval Office again vacant I do not think it could be more

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