Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 565

administration were a little more attentive to the Colonies
than they seem to be. They have not, I fear, Virtue to recede,
or Capacity to proceed, and in the mean time are ruining
almost the whole Empire by their Suspence and Irresolution.
I am
S^r
Yo^r Most Faithful Hble Serv^t
Hugh Hamersley.
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of Letter to M^r Hamersley Dated Annapolis 19^th
Oct' 1769 transmitted by Captain Montgomerie.
Sir
This serves to inclose Firsts of seventeen Setts of Exchange
amounting together to the Sum of £1216 16 8 which the
Purchasers of Manour Land have paid in since the Governor
in my Absence remitted you Bills for the following Sums viz.
on the 14^th of August Bills amounting to £574 13 7 1/4 & on
the 11^th of last Month Bills of Exchange to the Amount of
£1325 14 1 1/2 As I have not received any Letter from you
since that dated in Nov^r last I have only to add that I am Sir
Y^r humb serv^t

Letter Bk. V

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]

Lincoln's Inn 30. Nov^r 1769.
S^r
I have already acknowledged your favor of 27^th May with
the Enclosed Bills for £2099 12 11 on Account of the sales of
the Manorial Lands. I have now only to return you a Single
Protest for £8. " B. 364. Isaac Lansdale on John Day £8 o o.
Charges of Protest 059"
By the last Letters from Lord Baltimore he was then about
Dresden and its Environs where he intended to Winter not
without thoughts of turning his face homeward in the ensuing
Summer where I much wish to see him again to Renew a more
regular Correspondence with his Province. I understand by
his Lordship that he has lately wrote to you and therefore I
must Deny myself the pleasure of Communicating those Senti-
ments of regard which I know he Entertains for you It gives
us the greatest concern to hear of the late Hurricane in the
Province but I hope its effects have not in generall been so
dreadful as represented and that your Share in the common
Calamity has been as little as Possible. What the Parliament
will do with the Colonys at their approaching meeting on 9^th

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