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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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witness to-day to thegood workmanship of the eighteenth century. A finebrickyard and sawmill had been early established on hisproperty to furnish materials not only for his own mansion,but for friends building houses in Annapolis. Their solidwalnut window frames and sills, beautiful floors of hardpine laid on locust beams bear evidence of the skill inseasoning and preparing lumber of those workmen of acentury and a half ago. Hand-wrought nails testify totheir labour as mechanics. The governor spent as much of his time as was possibleat Whitehall, amusing himself with his favourite pursuitof farming, and consulting with his friend Judge Borfleyon the best methods of improving agriculture and developinghome industries. An old mill was eventually convertedinto a loom and spinning factory, where wool from his famousSouth Devon flock and cotton and flax were spun andwoven into clothes for my people, as Sharpe calls them.They were emphatically his people ; no kinder master 188 *n§ ■I i i
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1760-1765 189 could be found, and his large retinue of negro slaves andindentured white servants were supremely happy. The duty of looking after the welfare and comfort ofthose under him was faithfully discharged. His garden washis passion, and seeds and scions of trees and rare shrubsand flowers to beautify it were sent for from Hollandand England and France. The fine orchards and lawnssloping to the blue Chesapeake Bay were his pride anddelight. Those who visit Whitehall to-day can see theresults of his horticultural skill. With reference to this farm, as the governor called it,Calvert writes : Captain Love having hinted to me ofyour desire of some English Hares he informs me youhave a villa and grounds to keep them in. It gives mepleasure your being in such a situation, the recess ofHappiness. I have ordered Hares to be got at Woodcote.The Steward has ketched four Brace. I shall have themaugmented to more if I can and send them by CaptainLove. As to the hares, Sharpe writes some mo

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