78 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

the Number of Ships which have loaded here this Summer
was small 1 presume the Duty of one shilling p^r Hhd will this
year fall short of even a Thousand Pounds. I take this
Opportunity to congratulate Your Ldp on the glorious Addi-
tion that hath been lately made to His Majesty's Conquests
by the Success of His Forces under the Command of the Earl
of Albermarle, & most sincerely wishing Your Ldp may
receive great Benefit from the Excursion I am told by some
Gentleman here You are making to Spaa on Account of
Your Health I am with the greatest Respect Your Ldps faith-
ful & obed humb Serv^t

Letter Bk.IV

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 115 Letter to M^r Calvert. Dated Ann^s 3^d Oct^r 1762
sent by C^t Montgom^y
Sir
Since my Letters dated the 12^th & 25^th of last Month were
closed & sent on board Col^o R^d Tilghman the present Clerk
of Queen Anns County who is now pretty far advanced in
Years & is become of late very infirm having come over the
Bay to the Provincial Court took me aside one Day when he
had dined with me & putting into my hands a Letter "which
you wrote him some years ago told me he was very desirous
to resign his Clerkship to his Son in case Your Approbation
& M^r Dulanys could be obtained, & solicited me to second
the Application which he intended to make to you for that
purpose, from interesting Myself however in that manner I
desired to be excused but I told him that if he was deter-
mined to write to you himself on the Subject I would if he
pleased transmit you his Letter which therefore 1 accordingly
inclose. By what I could learn of his Conversation his hopes
of Success are principally founded upon his Wifes being some-
how or other related to His Ldp & Yourself, & on a kind of
Assurance which it seems you gave him of His Ldp's being
disposed to give his Relations in the Province proofs of his
Regard for them : As to the Young Man on whose behalf he
will solicit Your Favour he is an entire Stranger to me, so as
I have nothing to offer either in his favour or against him &
as I told his Father candidly that he must not expect I should
interest myself at all in the Affair I only submit his Letter to
your Consideration & am with great Regard &c.