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152 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. II.
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to the Twightwees or what it will be proper to say to them in
Consequence of your former Treaties with or Overtures to
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them, I must request you to answer me particularly as to that
point & that you will send me a proper Belt to be carried with
my Message. What made me apprehend that the Guns sent
to Belhaven were only four pounders was Mr Lewis's misrep-
resenting to me their Dimensions & the Diameter of their
Chase which he told me he had measured but I have received
a Letter from him since advising me that on his reviewing &
reexamining them at his Return in Compliance with my Direc-
tions he found he had not been sufficiently accurate in his first
Measurement & that he had upon discovering his Error writ
to you to acquaint you that he found the Diameters of the
Bore of those pieces to be 3 Inches & 7/10 & to desire you to
order Ball to be made of the same Diameter, in that however
he has again erred for the Diameter of the Ball ought to be
always 2 Lines at least less than that of the Guns Chase so
that instead of having the Ball made 3.7lnches you will please
to order them to be only 3.5Inches Be pleased to present my
Compliments to Capt. Arbuthnot & acquaint him with the
Cause of my Suspicion & that if you approve thereof I will be
obliged to him for his Men at that Rate. I should be glad you
would get some Shot made for that small Brass-Gun at York
& send them up together with the Gun & those Wheels from
Williamsburg by the first Opportunity, it was reported with
us that 2000 Men were expected over immediately from
Europe which I should have been glad to have seen con-
firmed, if you Preceive any farther Advice concerning what
Assistance we are to expect from home you will not delay to
acquaint me therewith.
I am &c
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[Sharpe to Morris.]
Annapolis, December 27. 1754
Sr.
Your favour of the 3d I have had the pleasure to receive since
my Return to Annapolis & most heartily wish the hopes you
entertain of your Assembly's Disposition may be fully answered
tho my not having yet received a Line of Advice makes me a
little doubtful of your Success. You will be pleased to think
that your kind mention of Capt. Rutherford has confirmed the
Opinion I had before entertained of him & that he shall not
want my Regard & particular Notice. Your Care in commu-
nicating to me so speedily the Intelligence you had received
of the Arrival of such a Reinforcement at Monongahela much
obliges me, I have also received the same Account from Colo
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