548 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

Form of a Return to be made on our Commission for running
the Boundary Lines as every thing might in that Case have
been settled between us before this time, I shall take over
with me to the Meeting next Tuesday a Copy of what you have
been now pleased to write to me on that Subject & submit it
to the Consideration of All the Commissioners who will I hope
now put the finishing Hand to that Business. The Reason of
my ordering such a Reserve to be made beyond Fort Cumber-
land was that it had been signified to me more than once that
His Ldp was desirous to have some other Manors laid out &
particularly by your Letter of the 8^th of Nov^r 1766, & in my
Letter of the I^st of April I told you I had ordered so large a
Quantity to be included that it might be at His Ldp's Choice
to have either One or more Manors laid out & because the
good Land does not lye contiguous but in parcels a Quantity
of good Land so large as four or five thousand Acres together
not being at this time to be found vacant on this side the
Allegany Mountain. What you have now wrote relative
thereto shall be communicated to the Board of Officers as soon
as they can conveniently come together. I shall send you
inclosed Drafts of such Instructions as they at some past Meet-
ings thought it might be proper to give to the several Officers
any ways concerned with His Ldp's Revenue ; if on Consider-
ation of them they should be thought imperfect or any of them
improper you or M^r Jordan as Supervisor &c will I presume
communicate to the Board His Ldp's or your own Sentiments
thereon. I am glad to find His Ldp approved of my induct-
ing the Rev^d M^r Edmiston into this Parish & M^r Hughs into
that of Coventry, for some time the People there seemed to
acquiesce & twas thought they would drop all Pretensions to
the Right of Presentation but M^r Hughs tells me some of
them broke out again about three Weeks ago declaring they
would have a new Parson of their own Choosing since they
were to have a new Governor & actually went in a Body to
his House in order to compel him had he been at home to
abjure the Parish. The Provincial Court being sitting I
desired the Attorney General to move for Leave to file an
Information against the Ring Leaders & I have struck out of
the Commission a Justice of Peace in Worcester County that
was represented to have countenanced the Rioters. You know
I presume before this time that the Publication which begun
on M^r W Dulanys refusing to Vote for M^r Allens holding two
Parishes were by no means dropt on his being inducted into
that of All Saints. I transmitted you the 22^d of June one of
the Hand Bills he had printed & distributed on his Return
from that Parish. While he was at Phil³ he published a small
Pamphlet under the Title of An Appeal to his new Parishioners