[Sharpe to Dinwiddie.]
Annapolis Iune 8th 1755.
Dr Sr
Your Favour of the 2d is just delivered me, & a few Days
since I received also a Letter from the General of which I inclose
you a Copy; upon the Receipt of a Duplicate thereof Govr
Morris has summoned the Assembly of that Province to meet
again the 13th Inst. tho he seems to entertain as small hopes
from such a Proceedure as I do of procuring Supplies by the
Application that I am about to make to our People the 23d
You intimate that the General thinks of drawing all the Troops
from Fort Cumberland & leaving it to these Provinces to
replace them with others or with their Militia I wish I may be
able to contribute to the doing either, but indeed I am afraid
if the Obstinacy of the Assembly forces me to make the Trial
I shall find our Militia Law even more defective than yours,
however I have sent peremptory Orders to the Officers to
muster & dicipline their respective Companies after their
manner & have also issued a Proclamation notifying to the
Back Inhabitants what they may expect, & cautioning them to
be on their Guard & prepare for their mutual Defence in case
of any Attack or Alarm. Pray what Carriage Guns have you
to send to Fort Du Quesne if wanted? Some Arms & Ammu-
nition I may perhaps be able to afford be the Determination of
our Gentlemen what it will, but as more than the £6000
granted last summer is already expended, nothing remains to
purchase Provisions with or to raise any more men for the
necessary purposes for which they are required. I have signi-
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