Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765. 503

Tis Extraordinary No Journal of proceedings of the Com-
miss^rs that run the Line from Fenwick Island to Chesopeak
Bay, you Note M^r Jenings brought it home, that no Copy
remains in the Province tis very peculiar no Record there
to recourse to on so important a transaction, under Cog-
nizance & Direction of the Court of Chancery, very Remiss
in the Cominiss^rs of Maryland to Subject a Dissolution of
Evidence to the unfortunate Articles of agreem^t with Pen-
silvania: A Chaos of matter infolded, & many years Liti-
gated at Law, dependant on the late Gov^r Ogle for Evidence
from the Province. Large Sums by the late Proprietor paid
to the Commiss^rs & Expended as by Acco^ts of M^r Tasker
then the Recev^r Gen^l & brought to hearing in Chancery,
there defficient of Evidence, the late Proprietor Non-Suit'd.
Thus circumstanced, his Lord^p thinks it most adviseable to
Acquiess to the Articles of Agreem^t of which you will e'r
long hear, therefore needless in the Province of further
Expence ab^t that Line.

I have the Power of Attor^y from young M^r Ogle & have
deliver'd your Letter to y^r Brother Joshua Sharpe. M^r
Tasker has transmitted His Acco^t with Hyde & Lord Balti-
more deceased, tisn't Satisfactory to John Hyde Claimant,
he threaten's Suit ag^t My Lord.

M^r Lloyd writes word of a Certain Ric^d Cooper being
Convict'd of Man Slaughter by w^h his Estate Personal be-
came forfeited to My Lord Also that Jn^o Vining a Gentleman
of Interest & influence being a Prothonotary of the Comon
Pleas in that part that is call'd the three Lower Counties
of Pensilvania, had contrived to have Ten slaves w^h were
at the time of Cooper's conviction the Property of the said
Ric^d Cooper, Clandestinly carried into Kent or Delaware,
where the said Vining lives, Also that the sheriff of Dorches-
ter County one Daniel Sulivane had undertaken of his own
accord to sell & dispose of the said Negroes or 9 of them to
the said Vining at an Under rate viz. 245f Pensilvania Curr^y
& this with' any Power or Authority from M^r Lloyd w^h had
occasion'd him as Agent to cause Replevin to be Issued for
the same; This being in Court some time before matters
cou'd be ripe for Trial, the latter End of last Month (Sept)
he went up to the Cause & on talking with the Attor^y Gen^l
M^r Chew who had the management of Vining's Cause &
Vining himself, he brought him to offer 325£ Our Curr^y (w^h
is better than Pensilvania money) w^h he thought on full
enquiry was the full value of the slaves & therefore agree'd
to Accept it. Now the Remark on this Case is, How is it,
M^r Attor^y ag^t his Lord^p in a Cause of his Property? As to