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108 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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will suffer the least Neglect or Delay in the Performance of the
present Service, now strongly recommended to you, particularly
with regard to the following Points, Vizt That you should
carefully provide a sufficient Quantity of fresh Victuals, at the
Expence of your Government to be ready for the use of the
Troops at their Arrival.
That you should likewise furnish the Officers, who may have
Occasion to go from Place to Place, with all necessaries for
travelling by Land, in Case there are no Means of going by
Sea, and that you should use your utmost Diligence &
Authority, in procuring an exact observance of such Orders, as
shall be issued, from Time to Time, by the Commander in
Chief, for quartering the Troops, impressing Carriages, & pro-
viding all Necessaries for such Forces, as shall arrive, or be
raised, within your Government.
As the Articles abovementioned are of a local and peculiar
nature, & arising entirely within your Government, it is almost
needless for me to acquaint you, that His Majesty will expect,
that the Charge thereof be defrayed by His Subjects belonging
to the Same. But with regard to such other Articles, which
are of more general Concern, it is the King's Pleasure that
the same should be supplied by common Fund, to be estab-
lished for the Benefit of all the Colonies, Collectively, in North
America; For which Purpose, you will use your utmost
Endeavours to induce the Assembly of your Province to raise,
forthwith, as large a Sum as can be afforded, as Their Contri-
bution to this common Fund, to be employed provisionally, for
the general Service of North America, (particularly for paying
the Charge of levying the Troops to make up the Complements
of the Regiments abovementioned) untill such Time as a Plan
of a general union of His Majesty's Northern Colonies, for
their common Defence, can be perfected.
You will carefully confer or correspond, as you shall have
Opportunities upon every Thing, relative to the present
Service, with the said General, Sir Willm Pepperell, & Govr
Shirley, or either of them; And as it is the King's Intention to
give all proper Encouragement to such Persons, who shall
engage to serve upon this Occasion, you will acquaint all such
Persons, in the King's Name, that they will receive Arms &
Cloathing from hence, & that they shall be sent back, (if
desired) to their respective Habitations when the Service in
America is over.
As the several Governors in all the King's Provinces &
Colonies in North America, will receive by this Conveyance, a
Letter to the same Effect with this, which I now send you, they
will be prepared at the same Time, to obey His Majesty's
Commands: And I am to direct you, to correspond with all,
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