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to establish a Regiment in these Colonies to garrison them as
less than a Regiment will not be sufficient for that Service for
the Men will expect to be releived some times, in that Case I
hope your good Offices will procure me the Command thereof
as I have good reason to think neither of the other Governors
will be found my Opponents. —
[Sharpe to Braddock.]
May 7. 1755— General Braddock
Dr Genl
As I have been most earnestly sollicited & importuned on
my Return home thro this place by one Mr Lowndes (a person
whose Behaviour & Conduct on all Occasions make me very
desirous of serving him) to apply to your Excellency &
favourably represent his Case I beg leave to trouble you on his
Accot & beg the Discharge of four Servants of his that were
enlisted by Lieutt Brereton just as he was leaving Rock Creek.
The petitioner has a Ship on the Stocks which these 4 Servants
were employed in building & fitting for Sea others of the same
Trade cannot be procured, whereby the Vessel must remain
unfinished & the Owner receive a prodigious Detriment unless
by my Intercession he can be favourably heard by your Excel-
lency & procure the Servant's Discharge I have ventured to
give him hopes of succeeding if he can procure as many young
& unexceptionable persons to serve & enlist in their Stead
this he is endeavouring to do & will I believe be able to
accomplish within four or five Days when I will take Care to
have them marched to Wills-Creek & shall think myself much
obliged if your Excellency will order them to be accepted &
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the Servants dismissed, or if you please to order them to be
discharged immediately which will be doing a greater Kind-
ness. I will take on myself to replace them with an equal
number of able men as soon as I can possibly procure & send
them up. I have acquainted Capt Orme with the Servants
names one of whom is a Convict & as your Excellency intimated
an unwillingness to have any Convict Servants at all enlisted
into the Regiments I think myself obliged to advise you that
Mr Brereton has also recruited four other Convicts at this
place named Iames Tobin, Cornelius Newhouse, Nichl Stone
& Wm Beadle, which I believe their former Masters would be
glad to recover at the Expence of sending Recruits in their
Stead to Wills Creek if you should be pleased to order them
to be left there when the Troops march. Colo Cresap who
acts as a Magistrate in this province waits on you with this to
whom I have desired Capt Orme to communicate your Answer
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