Identifier: colonialgovernor00edga (find matches)
Title: A colonial governor in Maryland
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Edgar, Matilda Ridout, lady
Subjects: Sharpe, Horatio Maryland -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States -- History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 Maryland -- Politics and government 1775-1783
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Molhsson against drawing the cordtoo tight, and by what he tells me it will produce three-pence or threepence halfpenny a pound, of which youshall have as early an account as possible. You will alsoreceive the Public Ledger to this day, and should any othership sail for Maryland a fortnight hence you will then havethe Parliamentary Register which comes out monthly.Your observations on the governor quitting the Provincewith a professed declaration not to return unless a repealof all the offensive acts should take place, are certainlymost just. If he gives up the Governorship before harmonyis restored there are but few men that would accept it, ofwhich number I shall not make one. Sharpe writes on the 20th of May 1775, referring to thepossible resignation of Governor Eden : Mr. Browning is the man to whom the government ofthe Province will be offered, and I am apt to think hiscircumstances are such as will induce him to accept of it,particularly if nothing turns up to encourage him in a
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MRS. GEORGE SAMUEL OGLE AND CHILD(Nee Anne Tasker) I To .ii t />. 262 LA DEBACLE 263 more steady pursuit of his claim to the Province. Hisclaim my brother thinks very favourably of. The Governor certainly judges right in leaving theProvince with regard to his Brothers interest, but how itwill be approved of by the Ministry I know not. His brother the Deputy Secretary has great interest,and it may be passed over. We are going into mourning for the Queen of Denmark,who died at Zell a few days past. I have much more tosay, but have not time. My compliments to Dr. Scottand let him know that he will soon be in Fortunes Cup.I will send the numbers of the tickets by the first opportunityafter my purchase. Mrs. Ogle and Sam are well, but I have had a feverand ague. It is over, and I am in high spirits.—Your mostsincere and affectionate friend. On the 4th of July 1775 a letter from Colonel Sharpe tellsof the contest that was going on in the courts for theproprietorship of Maryland between

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