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I hope be transacted in such a manner as may give His Ldp
on his Return entire Satisfaction & to Yourself in the mean
time not much Trouble or Uneasiness. It did I assure you
give me a good Deal of Concern to find that the Vessels by
which I remitted you Bills for £125 9 31/2 the 11^th of May
last were by reason of the Chesterfield's being ordered to the
Havanna detained in Virginia till the Month of August but
that was an Accident I could not expect when Capt Jarvais
had signified by Advertisement that he should sail the first of
June & I flatter myself those Bills had reached Your hands long
before Your Letter came to mine, & that you have also before
this time received the Bills for £126 5 which I remitted you
the 12^th Sept^r As M^r Ridout tells me he remitted you a Bill
of Exchange last Feb^y for £50 being what became due from
him as Commissary the 25^th of Dec^r preceding, that on the
21^st July last by the first Ship which sailed after he received
Yours dated 24^th April he remitted you Bills for £98 15 on
Account of what had become due from him as D Secretary &
that he also paid M^r Bordley his Proportion at the Rate of
£100 a year for that small part of the year 1762 which he
continued Commissary I flatter myself you will not entertain
any unfavourable Opinion of him on Account of his Bills
coming so late to your hands, & as M^r Bordley told me he
should by the first Ship that might sail after the Completion
of the year remit you a Bill for £100 I expect he will do so by
this Opportunity. As it is now six weeks since I transmitted
under Cover to His Ldp the Addresses which the Gentlemen
of the Council & I had prepared for their Majesties on occa-
sion of the Auspicious Birth of a Prince I doubt not but you
have eer this received them but as I observe by the London
Gazettes that none of the Corporations &c. addressed the
Queen on the Occasion I presume you will not think it proper
to present ours. Having in a Postscript to a Duplicate of one
of my late Letters advised you of the Death of M^r Thomas I
now take the Liberty to remind you of what I wrote to you
the 12^th of Sept^r on behalf of Philip Key Esq^r & to express my
hopes that His Ldp will be pleased to appoint him a Member
of the Council in M^r Thomas's Stead. I am &c.

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Gov. Bernard.]

Ann^s 19 Feb^y 1763.
Sir
A Detachment of Your provincial Troops who served last
Summer in Nova Scotia having as they were returning to
Boston been obliged by stress of Weather to bear away for
Bermuda & having thence taken their passage in a Vessel

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Letter Bk. III