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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 227
 

 

Capt Poison money so readily & I hope you will not condemn
my Conduct therein, tho his Extravagance should render him
unable to give a Satisfactory Acco' of its Disposal. I observe
by an Accot that I received from him some time since that the
Expence of raising his Men Victualing them till he reached
Frederickton & their pay to the 23 of March amounts to £35.
13. 10 more than he had then received so that if the Men were
regularly paid I hope he will not be much in Arrears. By our
Act of Assembly Soldiers are to be victualed at Is a Day each
but I beleive that Act was not made before Capt Poison
reached the place of Rendezvous: when his Company came
thither you may see in the inclosed Accots which the Inhabitants
on whom they were quartered delivered me with a petition
requesting payment but in that I am unable to gratify them the
Money that was granted by our Assembly last Summer being
all expended & I almost dispair of finding them disposed to
grant any more Supplies I am sorry to find Capt Rosse has
not behaved so genteely as might have been wished &
expected, & should have been glad he had dealt a little more
ingenuously with me too when he requested me to speak in
his favour to the General without undeceiving me with respect
to his Rank & Half pay. The General however has given
him a first Lieutenancy in Pepperels Regiment & I suppose he
has eer this joined his Corps. I received a Lettr this morning
from General Braddock dated the 17th Inst at the Little
Meadows (between 20 & 30 Miles from Fort Cumberland)
Mr Shirley tells me they were got so far with much Difficulty
& Distress but were preparing to go on with more speed by
Letter Bk. II.
p. 93

lessening the Number of waggons to those necessary for the
Artillery & reducing the provision &c to such a quantity as
may be carried on Horses. A Detachment of 1000 of the
best Troops were to go forward to the great Crossing & the
Rest were to follow more slowly with the remaining waggons
& provisions. A Gentn arrived here this Day in less than 7
weeks from London informs me that his Majesty was gone to
Germany & that he was about to leave England the ministry
seemed to be in some hurry on Accot of Intelligence that had
been recd of 22 Sail of Ships having sailed from France toward
the western Coast of Ireland upon which Admirals Hawke &
Boscawen sailed after them with 12 Ships, it was reported
that the French had embarked a very considerable Number of
Troops with a Design of making a Descent in that Kingdom —
p. 94
 

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