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to meet & Settle with them next week at M^r Penn's. M^r
Eden who is now with me desires his best respects to your
Excellency with many thanks for your kind offer but will write
you himself by the first opportunity he does not think of
Embarking till the latter end of February. I am with the
greatest regard & esteem

S^r

Serj^ts Inn Your Excellencys
19 Nov^r 1768 Most obed^t & Ever Faithful
P: S: I am to Acknowledge the Humble Serv^t
Receipt of the Bills on Account of Hugh Hamersley
the Sales of the Lands amounting to £2475 3 4 sterl & to
return you the enclosed Protest for £1 17 6 6 being M^r Har-
risons Bill on John Day whose House have stopped Payment
& Called their Creditors together.
His Excy. Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

Letter Bk. V

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley Dated Annapolis 28^th
Nov. 1768.
Sir
Since I wrote to you the 31^st of last Month I have, received
the inclosed Letter from M^r Mathew Tilghman, by which you
will see that he as well as M^r Carroll is averse to qualifying as
a Member of His Ldps Council & also declines accepting the
Agency. On my Communicating the Contents of M^r Tilgh-
mans Letter to the Board of Officers & the Substance of what
you wrote to Me the 18^th of July relative to His Ldp's being
displeased at M^r Allens Appointment (& I find you said even
more to M^r Dulany) they gave it as their opinion that a Com-
mission should immediately issue to some other Person, where-
upon with their Approbation I impowered Major Jenefer to
act till His Ldps further pleasure respecting the Agency can
be signified. M^r George Lee produced to Me this Day His
Ldp's Commission appointing him Surveyor General of the
Western Shore in my stead & he will immediately enter upon
his Office. Both M^r Chamberlaine & Col^o Lloyd having signi-
fied that they shall no more attend as Members of the Council
or Upper House there will be now five Vacances & as Col^o
Hammond has been some time in an ill State of Health there
will probably be another very shortly. In a short Letter I
wrote to you the 10^th Inst from Talbot County I informed you
that the Commissioners appointed to carry into Execution the
Articles of Agreement for running Boundary Lines between
this Province & Pennsylvania had at last joined in a Report a
Copy whereof with a Plan of the Lines annexed I then trans-