Liber J. R.
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Service: and acknowledging my obligations to you for the
great assistance I have had in my Consultations with you upon
the most Essential & difficult points of it; which hath put it
into my power to promote it further than I am perswaded I
should have been able to have done without it
I beg leave to assure you, Sir, that I shall ever esteem it an
happiness and Honour to me to maintain the Closest Corres-
pondence with you in the future Course of his Majestys Ser-
vice, and to give you proofs with what an unfeigned Esteem
and regard, I am
Sr Your Honours Most Humble & Most Obedient Servant
W Shirley
P. S. Inclosed are the Proportions according to the Plan
Settled by the Commissioners at Albany; which tho not per-
fectly Equal, are the only ones that can be made use of untill
more exact can be formed; which cant be done in time for the
Present purpose all inequalitys must be Equitably Adjusted,
and afterwards Set right upon the first opportunity of doing it
Your Honour must be Sensible that the Success of the next
years operations depends upon an early Campaigne
I must desire your Honour to prevail on your Assembly to
raise their Inclosed Proportion of 1000 Men towards the Expe-
dition against Crown Point in the first place, before you a
recomend to them to Raise their proportion towards the
Expedition against Du Quesne.
Proportions of the 10,000 Men proposed to be rais'd for the
Crown Point Expedition according to the Plan Settled by the
Commissioners at Albany.
Maryland 1000
Virginia 1750
Pensilvania 1 500
New Jerseys 750
New York 1000
Rhode Island 500
Conecticutt 1250
New Hampshire 500
Massachusetts 1750
10,000
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