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202 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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lowing & by their professions at the opening of the Session fed
me with hopes of large Supplies but when they came to the
point a Bill was brought in for £7.000 to raise which the
Ordinary Lycences were to be farther mortgaged & that His
Ldp's Instructions possitively forbad me to comply with, so our
Assembly broke up without giving any more aids than the
several northern Colonies to whom I had on the Receipt of his
Majesty's Commission addressed myself for Assistance. About
this time we were informed by many Letters from England that
2 Regiments were ordered hither from Ireland to be under the
Command of a General Officer, that Transports sailed to Ire-
land to take them aboard in Novem. & that Ordnance Stores
were shipping at the Tower & also some of the Train. This
Accot was confirmed to me by Governor Dinwiddie the 2d of
Iany & within a few Days I received a Letter from Sir Thos
Robinson to the same purport, upon this I again set off for
the Camp to make some preparations for the Reception of the
British Troops at their Arrival in Case the General should
choose to march them thither to make an early Campaign ;
when I had been there about a week superintending that Busi-
ness I had the pleasure of seeing Sr Iohn St Clair arrive on the
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same Errand & with the same Design we took our Leave of
the Camp the 2d Day afterwards & giving the Commissaries
that Goverr Dinwiddie had now appointed proper Directions
for laying provision into the Stores that the Men were building
we proceeded down Potowmack about 200 Miles & then by
Land to Williamsburg in Expectation of meeting the General
by that time arrived, being disappointed in such Expectations
I was obliged to make the best of my way to Annapolis
(reveiwing & discharging many of the Virga Recruits in my
way) where I had appointed the Assembly to meet the 22o of
March & once more repeated my Requisitions for farther Sup-
plies, the old Obstacle has again prevented my succeeding &
after sitting & disputing a month about his Ldp's prerogative
they have given me evident Demonstrations that they never
will grant a Shilling without the Compulsion of an Act of
parliament unless the Ordinary Lycences be appropriated con-
trary to his Ldp's positive Instructions & Injunctions; they
now stand prorogued to Iuly, but the General will have the
several Governors of the Carolinas Virga Maryland & Pensa
meet their respective Assemblies again next Month in which I
shall imitate the other Gentn tho I entertain not the least hopes
of succeeding, as soon as I was released by the Assembly's
prorogation I waited on the General at Alexandria where the
two Regiments from Ireland were disembarked & encamped :
the 3d of this Inst April the General Commodore Kepple Gov-
ernor Dinwiddie & the General's Aid de Camp & Secretary
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