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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en of Fortune in the Province to become joint Suretieswith him, or if that is not sufficient he has a very nighrelation in England that hath a Landed Estate in Somerset-shire worth upwards of 12,000 pounds sterling, who, heis persuaded, would, if security is required to be given inEngland, become surety on his Behalf. The consent of the governor to his secretarys marriageis magnanimous if the story current in the province be truethat Horatio Sharpe was himself enamoured of the fairMary Ogle. Youth triumphed over rank, and the handsomeand talented young secretary was chosen instead of themore mature governor. This episode, however, did notinterrupt their friendship, and in the solid brick housebuilt by John Ridout in Duke of Gloucester Street, wherehe brought his young wife in 1765, and where his descendantsstill live, there is a room known as Colonel Sharpes room,which was always ready when he chose to pay a visit totown, especially after he gave up his town residence toGovernor Eden.
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1760-1765 195 News came early in 1761 of the death of George n.in October 1760, and the usual formal condolenceswere passed between the officials on both sides of theAtlantic, though formal indeed must have been their senti-ments of grief, for he had not been beloved by the nation,while the advent of an English-born monarch was hailedwith joy. Calvert writes to Sharpe from London on 30thOctober: I condole with you on the melancholy Event ofthe Death of our late Most Gracious Sovereign, alleviatedin our grief by His present Majestys accession to the Throne,a glorious prospect to us and all his subjects from hisbenevolent and benign Princely Qualities. Enclosed youhave the Lord Proprietors Orders and Instructions forProclaiming His Majestys Accession to his Imperial Realms.The immediate departure of the packet allows me only tosay of our joy for the taking of Montreal and the Possessionof Canada. His Majesty died at Kensington Palace the25th inst. This reached Annapolis on the 23rd of J

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