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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharp e. 293
 

 
Assembly on the Receipt of your Lettr had there been the
least probability of my prevailing with them to depute Com-
missioners to meet you with power to make any Stipulation or
Agreement with respect to the Quota of Men or Money that
this Province should advance towards carrying on another
Expedition against our common Enemy: but Sir I am sorry to
inform you that the Case is far otherwise some Disputes that
subsist between the Branches of our Legislature have for the
present put an entire Stop to all Business. Not even the
Ravages that the Enemy have been committing on our Frontiers
had weight with our Assembly to make them wave the point
in Controversy, you will readily conclude then that my Meeting
them on what they have & would esteem a more forreign
matter would be to little Effect; however as soon as I receive
some Letters that I expect very shortly from England I will
convene the Assembly & will you may be assured endeavour
to procure some Supplies tho the present Circumstances of
our Affairs & the Vicinity & Incursions of the Enemy against
whom an Armed Force in these parts will be requisite forbid
Letter Bk. II.
me to expect any thing considerable for you. I am much
obliged to you for favouring me with a particular Account of
your situation at the time you writ which indeed seems to have
been none of the best but as you expressed some Expectations
of being put in a better Condition by the Arrival of a Convoy
of Provisions I entertain the most sanguine hopes that you was
not disappointed in such your Expectations & that every thing
has since fallen out according to your wishes. Since Colonel
Dunbar left Fort Cumberland the Indians have made frequent
Incursions & cut off many of the Inhabitants. The Garrison
of the Fort is reduced by Desertions to about 140 men who
are as it were shut up by the numerous Parties of Indians that
infest all that part of the Country. Of the Troops in Fort
Cumberland about 100 are the Remains of all the Virginians;
in pursuance of a late Act of their Assembly Governr Din-
widdie has ordered them to be compleated to 1000 by Colo
Washington who is to have the Command of them when so
Regimented. Since General Braddock's Misfortune we have
not been able to get any Intelligence from Fort Du Quesne
but a French Deserter who left it a good while ago tells me
that the French have a Magazine of Provisions between Fort
de Niagara & St Victo at the Distance of about 9 miles from
the first.
p. 150
[Sharpe to Calvert]

20th Octr transmitted by Mr Wayne —
Sir
Your Packett by Montgomorie I have at length had the
Satisfaction to receive. The Directions with which your Letter


Letter Bk. I.
p. 162
 

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