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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 239
 

 

he is not one who would make any Allowance out of the Income
therefore I am at a Loss what measures to pursue so as
to offend neither, I hope you will favour me with your
Directions & that I shall receive them before the time that
I shall be obliged to make any Alteration — Mr Tasker tells me
he has sent you the whole Acct of Mr Hide's Affairs with the
late Lord Baltimore & what was done therein by him as Agent.
I am unwilling to write to his Ldp unless I had better News to
acquaint him with wherefore I shall defer it till I again address
myself to you & in the mean time am Sr &c —


Letter Bk. I.

 

 

[Sharpe to John Sharpe.]
Iuly 6. 1755.
Dr Br
Our Assembly is still sitting having yet done Nothing in
Compliance with my Recommendation or Requests. The old
Obstacles occur & will I beleive oblige me to prorogue the
Assembly to Morrow.
By Letters from our Back Inhabitants that have been
received since those mentioned in my last Letter I am
informed that 15 more of the distant Sellers have been killed
or carried away prisoners & that a Party of Indians were seen
the 29th Ult 100 Miles within our Setlements. I am satisfied
the Assembly will never recede from the points that his Ldps
Instructions oblige me to insist on tho half the province should
be depopulated; & to see the poor Inhabitants who are near
the frontiers in such distressed Circumstances witht being able
to releive or protect them gives me great Concern & uneasi-
ness; besides I am not without Apprehensions that when Gent Braddock has taken the French Forts on the Ohio the French

will immediately recover & repossess them, for without Com-
pulsion these Colonies will not support a Garrison there or
supply it with Ammunition or provisions —

[Sharpe to Dinwiddie.]
July 8.
Sr
The inclosed Packett I have just recd from Govr Morris.
Our Assembly is still sitting but I beleive I shall be obliged to
prorogue them to Day as they seem determined to grant no
Supplies not even for the protection of our Frontiers on which
parties of Indians are daily committing Depredations. I have
Accts of their having killed & carried away 26 of our distant
Inhabitants & that a party of them have been seen not far
from Conegogeek near 100 Miles within our Settlements.


Letter Bk. II.
p. 98
 

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