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Annie tasker11/12/2022 The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired.For more information see Flickr API detail. #ANNIE TASKER LICENSE#Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Īt the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. 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 It is over, and I am in high spirits.-Your mostsincere and affectionate friend. Ogle and Sam are well, but I have had a feverand ague. 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. I have much more tosay, but have not time. We are going into mourning for the Queen of Denmark,who died at Zell a few days past. His brother the Deputy Secretary has great interest,and it may be passed over. 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. Hisclaim my brother thinks very favourably of. 262 LA DEBACLE 263 more steady pursuit of his claim to the Province. GEORGE SAMUEL OGLE AND CHILD(Nee Anne Tasker) I To. 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 Sharpe writes on the 20th of May 1775, referring to thepossible resignation of Governor Eden : Mr. 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. 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. 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. Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green, and co.Ĭontributing Library: University of California LibrariesĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. 1600-1775 United States - History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 Maryland - Politics and government 1775-1783 Subjects: Sharpe, Horatio Maryland - History Colonial period, ca. Identifier: colonialgovernor00edga ( find matches)
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