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Surrounded by Virginia and Pennsylvania there has not been
much intercourse between you and Us You may be assured
that Your Warriors will not meet with any Molestation or
Interruption as they pass or repass thro this Province while
they themselves behave peaceably and as Brethren which I
hope they will always do.
Horatio Sharpe
Annapolis in Maryland
28^th March 1763.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board Send the following
Letter to M^r Daniel Cresap

Sir
Governor Hamilton having sent His Excellency an Extract
of a Speech which was delivered at the Lancaster Treaty Last
Summer by some Indians of the Six Nations wherein they
mention Something that you had told those of their Warriors
who went Last Year to the Southward thro this Province, I
am directed by his Excellency in Council to send you a Copy of
such Extract and at the Same time to Signify to you that he
approves of your keeping a Store to Supply such parties of
those Indians as may call on you with the goods they may
want which His Excellency hopes you will Sell them on the
most moderate Terms, and in case either you or your Father
should furnish any of those Indians as they shall pass and
repass with Provisions he will on your Accounts being Pro-
duced recommend it the Assembly to make you Satisfaction
for what you may so deliver or expend on that Account
Annapolis I am S^r y^rs &c
6^th April 1763. To M^r Daniel Cresap

Read the Report of the Justices of S^{t
Marys County Court
whereby it appears they had Passed Sentence of Death upon
Negro Adam Slave of Captain Robert Chesley upon two In-
dictments One for advising and Consulting to Murder his
Master the said Robert Chesley, the Other for advising con-
sulting and attempting to burn his Storehouse Ordered Dead
Warrant for the Execution of the said Negro Adam on Wed-
nesday the 8th of April next.}

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
18^th March 1763.
Present

His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor
Benjamin Tasker John Ridout Esquires

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