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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
Volume 6, Page 159   View pdf image (33K)
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 159
 

 
20th of next Month by which time I expect to be honoured
with your Ldps farther Instructions & to receive more par-
ticular Directions for my Conduct from His Majesty, if not, I
shall meet the Assembly at the time appointed & despair not
of seeing them convinced of the Danger & Injury that
another Emission of Paper would threaten to the province & of
finding them disposed to grant Supplies in a more acceptable
manner, tho indeed I am somewhat doubtful that the con-
tinued Obstinacy of the Pensilvania Assembly may have some
influence on their Conduct. I have taken the Liberty to
inclose for your Ldp the last Pensilvania Gazetts by which your
Ldp will see what Disputes subsist between Mr Morris & the
Assembly of that province which cannot be determined or
appeased without His Majesty will be pleased to interpose. I
have just received a Letter from Governor Morris in which He
acquaints me that an Act passed at the last Session of the
Lower County Assembly held at Newcastle granting £1000
for the Kings use to be disposed of as Govr Morris & the
Speaker of that Assembly shall see expedient; he also
intimates to me that he entirely despairs of bringing Matters with
the Pensilvania Assembly to any favourable Issue but that He
is told that they have voted £5000 (a sum inadequate to the
Riches of that province) for Provisions & Carriages which
money is to be put into the hands of five of their own Mem-
bers. I also send your Ldp a Copy of the Deposition
mentioned in one of Governor Morris's Messages which he
tells me he has transmitted to the Secretary of State: it is
probable that the Account therein given of the Numbers of the
Letter Bk. I.
French may be exaggerated but is very certain that their Force
at the Ohio is considerably increased & that 200 of the Otta-
way & Canuaga Indians who are entirely at the Devotion of
the French were also on their way thither so that the strength
of the Enemy on that River cannot by any Accounts be sup-
posed to be less than 1000 at this time.
A few Days since was forwarded to me from Boston where
a Man of War is arrived from England, a Letter from Sr Thos
Robinson dated at Whitehall 26th of Octor at which time my
Letter says one to the same purport was dispatched from the
Secretary of State his Office to every Governor on the Con-
tinent. It is thereby signified to me that His Majesty for the
Defence of his just Rights & Dominions in those parts has
been pleased to order over to Virginia two Regiments of Foot
consisting of 500 Men each beside Commissioned & Non-
Commissioned Officers to be augmented by us to 700 Men
each; & likewise to send Orders to Governor Shirley & Sr
Wm Pepperel Colonels to raise two Regiments of 1000 Men
each & " whereas (says the Letter) there will be wanting a
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