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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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164 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. I. 		I believe we must include a little of the Reserve in each of the
Leases as they come to be renewed. I have also inclosed as I
promised An Account of the Importations to this province in
the 1753. which however is very defective & indeed cannot be
otherwise, as the Quantity & Quality of the European Goods
imported is & must be unknown so that no Estimate can be
made of their Value which it must however be concluded is
exceedingly great as otherwise we cannot conceive what
becomes of our money while it appears by Exchange with
England being rather above par that we are not increasing our
Riches. The Consumation of Rum you will think I doubt not
very extravagant & indeed I wish some method could be
fallen on to prevent it which must be by an Excise Law other-
wise the pensilvanians would clandastinely bring in greater
Quantities than at present tho I believe they already make
a vast Addition to the Quantity that I have in the Estimate
noticed as legally imported. I am &c.

Letter Bk. II.
p. 54 		[Sharpe to Sir Thos. Robinson.]

Annapolis lanuary 12. 1755.
Right Honourable
In Obedience to His Majesty's pleasure which you had done
me the honour to signify to me, very soon after my Return
from Virginia I proceeded to the place called Wills Creek
where Governor Dinwiddie had ordered the three Independant
Companies with that of Maryland to Encamp, at my Arrival
there I learnt that the French on the Ohio had been Reinforced
by some Regular Troops from Canada & by a considerable
number of the Arundack, Ottoway & Canuaga Indians which
Tribes are & have been many years attached to & entirely
devoted to the French Interest. The Confirmation of this
Intelligence & Account, the Inconsiderable Number of the
Troops that we had at that time been able to Levy & the sur-
prizing Backwardness of the people to enter into the Service
soon convinced me of the Vanity of the hopes I had entertained
of being enabled to attempt something successfully this' winter,
wherefore I tarried there only about a fortnight while the Men
were employed in finishing some Barracks which they had
before my Arrival begun, & I gave Orders as the weather
should permit to build some Store Houses for the Reception
& preservation of such provisions as it was necessary &
expedient to lay in immediately lest a severe Season should
set in & deprive the Troops of all means of getting any kind
of Supplies, the Situation of the Camp in a distant & almost


p. 55 		uninhabited part of this province being better calculated to
 

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