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252 Correspondence of Governor Sharps.
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Letter Bk. II
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. ordered by their Instructions to receive & execute General
Braddocks Commands, by this unhappy news they are entirely
at a Loss what to do or how to act: they will tarry here at
least to see if the melancholly Account be confirmed or till you
can signify what you would have them do. If many Officers
should be lost ought they not to offer their Service to the Regi-
ments & raise men to compleat them instantly but in that
Case where can they have money for they have not permission
to draw on any Account whatever. I observe Colo Innes says
all the Artillery is taken but as he does not mention any
particulars nor by what means he received the Intelligence I
know not what to think of the Affair, inclosed you have the
last Accts we have recd from whence perhaps you may form
some Judgment how it happened. Our Gent" are making
subscriptions for the Defence of our Frontiers which will
enable me I hope to have 100 or 200 men in arms within
a very few Days for that purpose. You will not delay I hope
to send your Opinion to me concerning the Gent" whom I
mentioned above & at whose Request I have taken this Oppor-
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tunity of Addressing you. Be pleased also to inform me
whether or when you dispatch a Vessel with this news to Eng-
land wch will oblige —
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Letter Bk. I.
p. 142
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[Sharpe to Calvert]
luly 17. 1755
Sr
By the inclosed which is transcribed from a Lettr that I have
this Inst received you will see wl foundation or Grounds Colo
Innes had for writing the Lettr of wch you will find a Copy in
mine dated the 15 Inst. I leave it to yourself to judge wf might
have happened or how far that Accot ought to be credited &
related.
Memm Copies of these two last Lettrs were sent to Mr Wm
Sharpe
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Original.
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[Orme to Sharpe.]
Fort Cumberland luly i8th 1755.
My Dear Sir
I am so extremely ill in bed with the wound I have reciev'd
in my thigh that I am under the necessity of employing my
friend Capt Dobson to write for me.
I conclude you have had some account of the action near the
Banks of the Monongahela about seven miles from the French
Fort, as the reports spread are very imperfect what you have
heard must consequently be so to. You should have had more
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