Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 99

[R. Heron to Sharpe.]
Sir
I take the liberty to inform your Excellency of an affair
which if let Pass with impunity will I fear be of bad consi-
quence and disadvantage to this Province in general as well
as to the Offices in the District ; as plain S^r as I can compre-
hend, it is as follows. The Pensilvanians, have for a long
time been Endeavouring to get an Inlet into this Province,
and as I have been informed they have Transported by Land
Sundry goods Particularly Rum, which has been brought in
great Quantitys without notice or application to any Office,
they are now I believe intended to Push at a more Extensive
and advantagious way (if not prevented) in as much as they
will be able to import it, in much greater Quantitys and much

Cheaper then by Land Carriage. T have been several times

informed of a Large Ship Building up the River Nanticoke in
this District but always till now apprehended she belong'd to
some Gentlemen on the Western Shore of this Province, I am
satisfied from Persons of veracity that she is the Property of
some Merch^ts Residing in Pensilvania, she is now more than
half Loaded with Lumber, and as the Master nor any Other
has been to this or the Naval Office to make an Entry as
directed by Law, it seems to me as if they determined not to
come near any Office in this Province, and to depend intirely
on the advantage they think themselves intitled to on account
of the Devision line between the Two Provinces, as Your
Excellency must be much better acquainted with the Nature
of this Affair then I can Possibly be, and what they are, or are
not intitled to, I Humbly beg Your Excellencys advice in what
manner I may act being determined to pursue such measure
as will be most agreable to Your Excellencys better Judge-
ment and am S^r
With the greatest Respect Your
Excellencys most Hum^ble & Most Obed^t
Serv^t
Rob^t Heron
Port Pocomoke June 21^st 1763.

Original.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 121^st Letter to M^r Calvert Dated 2^d July 1763.
Sir
No London Ship having arrived here since I wrote to you
by a Vessel of M^r Elams from Choptank the 4^th of last Month

T have no Letter of yours to answer but being told that a Ship

of M^r Steuarts is just about to sail from Potowmack I embrace
the Opportunity to send you inclosed the two last Philadelphia

Letter Bk. IV