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

Letter Bk. II. 		thereof & the money being left to my Disposal desired his
Directions how it should be expended for His Majesty's Service
at the same time hinting to him the Expediency & necessity
of laying in a proper quantity of Provisions which had been
shamefully procured furnished & managed by his Commissary
Mr Carlile in answer to my Letter he desired I would raise a
Company of 100 Men with the utmost Expedition & send them
to join the Forces from N Carolina & Virga & the 3 Inde-
pendant Companies (which together would make a Body he
said of 1100 Men) at Wills Creek in Septr Accordingly I pro-
ceeded to form a Company cloath & accoutre them, having
ordered Colo Cresap who lives in Maryland about 15 Miles
from Wills Creek to purchase & instantly lay in at his house
on Accof of this province provision of Meat & Flour enough
for at least 100 Men during a twelve month, which Orders of
mine were punctually obeyed. The Latter End of Septr the
first Division of the Maryland Company marched for Wills-
Creek & the Officers received my urgent Orders to compleat
the Company with the utmost Dispatch & muster at Colo.

p. 75 		Cresap's. At the same time I received a Letter from Colo
Washington at Alexandria wherein he acquainted me that he
was in hourly Expectation of Money & Orders from Govr
Dinwiddie to conduct the Virga Troops & join the Inde-
pendants who then rendezvoused at Wills Creek but before
many Days had elapsed I was informed by Govr Dinwiddie
himself that he had just then been obliged to prorogue the
Assembly of that province because they would not grant a
Sum of Money for the Service in such a manner as he could
concur with, this Circumstance says he has made me give
over all thoughts of acting this Fall especially as the Virga
Troops by their Defeat Deaths & Desertions are now reduced
to 150 & the N Carolina Forces have all disbanded themselves
which was occasioned by a monstrous Management of them
from the Beginning. They raised £2000 procla. Money. The
president of that Colony gave the private Men 3/ a Day &
the Officers in proportion so that their Money was wholly
expended before they joined the other Forces & wd serve no
longer without assurance of the above pay under these great
Disappointments I determine to keep the few people we have
in pay & propose 100 of them to march to Wills Creek to join
the Independant Companies & to endeavour to secure a pass
over the Alegany Mountains by erecting a Fort & leaving a
sufficient number of Men therein with a proper Quantity of
provisions to facilitate our Operations next Spring which is all
I think possible to be done now. In October Governor Dobbs
arrived as I before informed you & while I was at Williams-
burg the Assembly of that Gov' granted £20000 more for the
 

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