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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 273
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[Sharpe to Shirley.]
August 29th 1755 —
Dr Genl
I take this Opportunity by a young Gentn one Mr West who
is ambitious of serving under your Command to acknowledge
the Receipt of Your Favr of the 13th together with a Copy of
your Lettr & Instructions to Colo Dunbar. I presume the
Colo Concluding from the Resolutions of the Pensa Assembly
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that little was to be expected from either of these Provinces
towards carrying on another Expedition to the westward till
the Legislature of great Britain shall compell us is proceeding
to receive your immediate Commands in the Province of N
York. The Provincial Troops that were left to Garrison Fort
Cumberland I hear desert daily, near a fortnight since they
had reduced themselves to 160, & Govr Innes tells me he is
not without Apprehensions of being attacked or invested by
the French & their Indians, who according to some Intelligence
he has lately received have discovered & dug up the Artillery
& Stores that Colo Dunbar buried in his Retreat, & were about
to construct some place of Defence at Coll Dunbars Encamp-
ment. The Virga Assembly has granted £40000 for the
service & Govr Dinwiddie speaks of raising 1200 men there-
with & sending them to build a Fort somewhere near the
meadows or just over the Alleganny Hills, but I doubt he will
scarcely execute such a scheme for it will require no small
number of Men to protect the Frontiers of that Province wch
have been much infested by Indians since Generl Braddock's
misfortune. The Inhabitants who dwelt in the distant parts
of Virga on New River & that called Green Brier have all left
their Plantations: Our People too have many of them fled to
the more populous Parts of the Country tho no Enemy has
lately appeared on this side Potowmack River — Beside Capt
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Dagworthys Company (that followed the Genl) which is now
at Fort Cumberland we have a Command of 20 on our Fron-
tiers which are supported by a subscription till some Lettrs from
England shall determine our Controversies & give me room
to meet our Assembly & ask them for Supplies with greater
probability of being regarded more than I have hitherto been
when I mentioned such a Subject. Wishing you Success &c
I am
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
[Augt. 1755]
M Lord
In my Lettr dated the 23d of July I gave your Ldp an Accot
of General Braddock's Misfortune near the Banks of the
Monongahela & acquainted your Ldp that I was then pro-
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