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tion of a Person to succeed Mr Iennings as Deputy Secretary :
the Genln one Mr Plater who was nominated by Mr Calvert
when he found he could not support his first Recommendation
died a few Days since whereby the Office is again vacated, so
I doubt not there will be again great Struggles for Succession
at home, it being one of the Offices which I am not sufficiently
impowered to dispose of here. As I cannot well concern
myself about this matter without Danger of giving Offence &
have in some sort failed already I will leave the Opponents to
make out their own Pretensions but am afraid Mr Calvert will
be thereby subjected to some Difficulties &c
[Sharpe to Braddock.]
Annapolis May 28th 1755 —
Sr.
Your Favour of the 22d Inst. I have just now received & beg
leave to assure you that no Endeavours shall be wanting to
engage the Assembly in some sort to perform their Duty by
granting Supplies for the purposes you mention. There are
20 Four Pounders in Virga which were sent in for the Governts
Service last Summer & we have 4 six pounders in this Province
which I imagine will be sufficient in case the Enemy should
destroy or render useless those that they have now in their Fort
& I shall take care to convey them up on the first notice. Did
I find myself impowered I would not lose a moment to lay in a
quantity of Provision but as the power of granting Money for
such uses rests in the Representatives of the people in Assem-
bly I can promise nothing more as to that matter than that I
will attempt to make them sensible of the necessity of granting
such Supplies from the fatal Consequences that may attend
their neglect. In case I succeed with them I hope I shall find
no great Difficulty in convoying the Provisions to Fort Cum-
berland but I apprehend t'will not be so easy a matter to get
the Militia to march much farther tho if we have provisions to
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