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242 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
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to the Incroachments & Devastations of the French & their
Savages by whom 26 of the Distant Inhabitants have already
perished however I with sorrow find that they will set nothing
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p. 139
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in Competition with the points for which they have been con-
tending & that the Lives & Safeties of the people must submit
to their Caprice & Humour finding it was impossible to
prevail on them to grant any Supplies or make such Provision
as it was my Duty to sollicit & as common Prudence &
Humanity should have inclined them to give, I complied with
their repeated Request by proroguing the Assembly to Ianuary
next when your Ldp's Council will advise farther to prorogue
them unless your Ldp shall in the mean time be pleased to
signify your pleasure to the Contrary. Govr Morris advises
me that the Assembly of that Province have behaved & con-
cluded their Session just in the same manner, & are determined
to abide by their former Resolutions unless they be compelled
to recede by some superiour Authority. I have also received
a Letter from Goverr Dinwiddie wherein he tells me that the
Assembly of that Dominion have granted £10000 more for the
Encouragement of the Expedition & upon receiving Intelli-
gence from their Frontier Cties that two parties of Indians &
French amounting together to about 130 Men had been seen
there & had destroyed 9 Families & burnt their Habitations,
they have also impowered him to raise 200 Men for the Pro-
tection of the Distant Settlements: As no other Hopes now
remain I am about to set off for Frederick to try what can be
done with the Militia of that Cty whose Officers are ordered to
meet, & I intend to have 80 Men furnished from their several
Companies by Lot or otherwise which I shall form into one
Company of Rangers & impress Victuals according to the
Directions of the Militia Act for their Subsistance till the
Barbarians shall decline to infest our Borders. We learn by
the Way of Phila that the French Fleet consisting it is said of
6 Men of War & 9 large Transports with 4000 Land Forces
are in the Harbour of Louisburg & that Admiral Boscawen
with 13 Sail of the Line lies before that place. We hope very
shortly to hear from General Braddock at Fort Du Quesne &
from Oswego on Ontario Lake where Govr Shirley with the
Troops under his Command must we expect be by by this time
arrived —
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Letter Bk. 11,
p. 99
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[Sharpe to Braddock.]
July 9th 1755—
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I am exceedingly sorry to be under a necessity of acquainting
you that our Assembly broke up yesterday without making
any provision either for the uses for which money was required
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