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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 171
 

 

[Sharpe to Braddock.]

Annapolis Feby 27. 1755.
Sir
By Capt. Rosse an Officer on half pay the Gentleman who
presents you this I take the Liberty to congratulate you on
your safe Arrival in America which I have had the happiness
& Satisfaction to be informed of by a Lettr that Sr I St Clair
did me the honour to write as soon as he was advised thereof.
You will be pleased to think that tis not without great Reluct-
ance I postpone for a few Days journying to Virginia to pay
my Respects to you myself in person, but I hope you will
excuse such my Tardiness when you learn that the Assembly
of this Province are now met in Obedience to a Lettr that Sr
Thos Robinson has honoured me wth requiring Aids of this
province for His Majestys Service & particularly to provide
provisions for the Troops that shall be under your Command
in this part of His Majestys Dominions. The necessity that
this Lettr laid me under of being present here at this time will
I hope apologize for me till I have the pleasure of waiting on
you which I promise myself in a very few Days as I have
reason to expect that the Gentn will think of Dispatching the
Business abovementioned & returning home the beginning of
next week at farthest, but as I am in this manner incapacitated


Letter Bk. II.
p. 60

to attend you, I have ventured to commit to writing & humbly
submit to you the Opinion which the situation of the country
behind us & the late Transactions of the French has led me to
entertain. You will not I am persuaded condemn this Free-
dom in communicating my Thoughts unasked for as a culpable
Forwardness but rather attribute it to my earnest Desire to do
every thing that may be agreeable to yourself. — What Intelli-
gence we have lately recd concerning the French who have
been sent to take possession of the Country adjacent to the
River Ohio & their present Strength & Numbers in these parts
you will know from Sr Ino St Clair & Govr Dinwiddie & I
entertain the most sanguine hopes that their numbers there
will not be found very formidable, but I am apprehensive that
unless the Communication between Canada & the Forts &
Settlements tht the French have made to the Southward of
Lake Erie can be cut off it will not be an easy matter to secure
our possession of them after the Success of your Arms have
recovered his Majesty's Dominions on which the French Troops
have presumed some time since to encroach. The permission
& Lycence that that nation obtained some years ago to build a
Fort in the Country of the 6 Indian Nations at Niagara the
pass or Streight between the Lakes Erie & Ontario have now
given them the Command over those people & an Oppor-
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