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112 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
p. 95
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
Annapolis 5th of Novr 1754.
My Ld
About a fortnight since I took an Opportunity by a Ship
sailing from Virginia to acknowledge the Receipt of yr Ldp's
Commission & express my gratitude for the vast Obligation
that your Ldp has been pleased to lay me under by your ready
favour & Kindness in permitting my Absence from your Ldps
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Province & the Administration of your Ldp's Government to
execute the Commission which His Majesty has been pleased
to honour me with. In obedience to your Ldp's Instruction I
immediately on my Return from Virginia assembled your Ldps
Council & acquainted them with your Ldp's Goodness & indul-
gence to me & the Honour that His Majesty had been pleased
to confer on me. With their Advice I have taken the Liberty
to issue Writs for a general Election of Representatives about
3 weeks before the Expiration of the usual Term that a Session
has been lately continued, this I was induced the more readily
to do from the Consideration that if the old Assembly had been
convened there would have been little probability of their doing
any thing generous while they would have been expecting in a
few Days a Dissolution. But before I can meet the Candi-
dates who are now electing I hope some of the neighbouring
Colonies will set them a laudable Example & then I despair
not of finding them inclined to shew a generous Disposition
& by paying a due regard to your Ldps Recommendation
manifest their Duty to His Majesty & their Constituents. In
Obedience to your Ldps pleasure I shall leave the Adminis-
tration of the Government & the Care of your Ldps private
Affairs to Mr Tasker in case I should for a short time be
absent from your Ldps Province. I propose to be at Wills
Creek about the End of next week & if there appears a Proba-
bility of effecting any thing with such a Body of Troops as can
be drawn together before the severe season sets in I may make
a winters Campaign, but if when I consult the Officers, it shall
be thought expedient to post-pone an Enterprize against the
Enemy till the neighbouring Governments can be persuaded
to send us some Reinforcements I will return hither again as
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soon as I have taken measures & disposed the Troops in such
a manner as to prevent the Incursions on our Frontiers this
winter of the French & their Indians of whom Governor Morris
has just advised me that 60 had been seen on their way & 200
more were expected to go to the Ohio Fort from thence in
parties to depopulate & lay wast at all Opportunities the Back
Parts of this & the two neighbouring Governments. But that
this Scheme of theirs at least has been frustrated I hope to be
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