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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 245
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G Britain shall first interpose & remove all Occasion of Dis-:
pute between us, in the mean time I shall endeavour to regu-
late our Militia as well as the Law will support me in doing &
I hope I shall be able to draft & form a Company of Eighty
out of them to range on our Extreme Borders to protect the
Frontiers; Provisions I shall order to be impressed where it
can be found, & for Subsistance they must trust to the
Generosity of some future & more benevolent Assembly. I
intend to go to Frederickton next week to review the Militia
& the Company of Rangers therefrom to be drafted before
they march. I had besides defraying the Expence of the
Curriers advanced £100, for the Subsistance of the Maryland
Company to this time hoping the Assembly would be prevailed
on to grant a small Sum from whence I might be repaid but
as their late Conduct makes me dispair of being ever reim-
bursed, I have writ to the General & the Captain acquainting
them that I can make no more Remittances for the Support of
the Company, which I therefore hope the General will order
to be divided between the Regiments. I have received a
Lett/ from Govr Morris dated the 3d Inst. in which he gives
me just such an Acct of the Event of his Assembly's Meeting
as I have given you of Ours, & in every part of it he expresses
Despair of seeing it otherwise till a great Reformation be
made in that Govt When Colo Innes writ to me the 22d of
June since which time I have received no Lett' from the Camp,
his Garrison consisted of 22 Men 30 of them sick, there were
also left with him at Fort Cumberland 50 Invalids from the
European Regiments I beleive he thinks the Garrison full
small & will be glad of your Reinforcement which (as you
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know my Condition & that I must pay from my own purse for
the Conveyance of Ammunition to the Militia) will I hope
receive your Orders to convoy up the Stores that you mention
& I apprehend they would be carried with less Danger by
Land than by Water. Govr Shirley advised me before he left
Boston (I beleive he is eer this on his way from Albany to
Oswego) that the French Fleet from Brest was seen by several
Vessels a little to the Eastward of Cape Breton & that certain
Intelligence had been brought to Boston of Admiral Bosca-
wen's being at St Iohns in Newfoundland with 10 Capital Ships
3 of his squadron having seperated from him in the passage;
Govr Morris in his Lettr says " last night we had Accts that the
French Fleet with 4000 Land Forces were in the Harbour of
Louisburg & that Boscawen with 13 Ships of the Line was
before it, this news may I beleive be depended on tho it is not
absolutely certain," private Letters from Phila say the French
Fleet consists of 6 Men of War & 9 large Transports, there is
great reason to think that the Embargo which was laid in
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