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which I writ some time since are ee'r this got home safely I
have no particular private Business to write on; wherefore I
beg leave to conclude with assuring you that I am wth the
greatest Respect & Regard, Sir,
your most obliged and Obedt Humble Servt
Annapolis, 5th Nov. 1754 Horo Sharpe
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Letter Bk. 11.
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[Sharpe to Lord Bury.]
Novr 5th 1754
My Ld
Your Favour of January I had lately the pleasure to receive
by Mr Christie & in Answer thereto must desire your Ldp to
be assured that that & every Letter of the same Sort shall
command any Services from me to any Gentleman here who
might be fortunate enough to get themselves recommended
to your Ldps notice. Your Ldp will I hope excuse me for
adding to these few Lines (which I cannot but think too con-
cise a Letter to your Ldp) a brief narration of some Occurrances
that have happened here since my Arrival on the Continent &
are looked upon at home I find as well as with us as matters
of no trivial Importance. About this time twelve months the
several Governors on this Continent received Letters from
England whereby they were advised of the march of a con-
siderable Body of Europeans & Indians towards the English
Settlements in Pensilvania & Virginia & were also forbid to
connive at or suffer any such apprehended Intrusion or Incur-
sion of Foreigners into His Majesty's Territories & Dominions
but ordered to repel them by every means in their Power,
these Letters were I apprehend transmitted hither in Conse-
quence of some Representations that had been made home in
the preceeding Spring, however on the Receipt of them Gov-
ernor Denwiddie sent a messenger with a Letter to the Com-
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mander of a Party of French (who had lately marched down
from Canada & were building a Fort on the River Ohio west-
ward of the Province of Pensilvania & about 150 Miles from
the inhabited part of Virginia) requiring him to retire & relin-
quish His Majesty the King of Great Britains Lands on which
they were then presuming to erect a Fort, instead of complying
with Governor Denwiddies Requisition the French Com-
mandant replied that it was more the part of His Commander
the Governor of Canada than his to dispute with the Governor
of Virginia about the Property of the Land He was then
possessed of that for His part he was only concerned with his
Commanding Officers orders which he was determined punc-
tually to obey & repel by force whatever power should attempt
to dislodge or interrupt him in the Execution of his Duty. On
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