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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 367
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proposed by the Bill brought in the same day and which had
Miscarried on occasion of the Amendment to the Use of the
Lord Proprietor.
And then the Lieut Governor in compliance with their
repeated request (after acquainting them in a short Speech
that he found the Business for which they were Convened
must be left undone) Prorogued them with the Advice of the
Council to the first of January then next.
The 9th of July . . . . The Lieut Governor by Letter acquainted
the Lord Proprietor with his having Prorogued the Assembly
and that as no other hopes then remained, he was about to Set
off for Frederick County to try what could be done with the
Militia of that County, whose officers were ordered to meet,
and that he intended to have Eighty men furnish'd from their
several Companys by Lot or otherwise which he should form
into one Company of Rangers and Impress Victuals according
to the Direction of the Militia Act for their Subsistance, 'till the
Barbarians should decline to infest their Borders.
The 23d of July .... The Lieut Governor sent an Account
received from Captn Orme of the Unhappy Defeat of Genl
Braddock, and writes that when he received that Account, he
was on his way to Fort Cumberland with a number of Gentle-
men and Voluntiers who had Entered into an Association to
bear Arms and Protect their Frontiers. That he should now
Halt at Frederick Town and if he found the Troops were well
Supplyed, should Expend part of a Sum (which the Council
and Gentlemen of the Assembly of the Country had Subscribed
upon the Assembly's Refusal at their last Meeting to Grant any
Supplies) in Purchasing a Quantity of fresh Provisions and
such things as he should think necessary for the Troops; And
Escort them with such men as he could perswade to join him
to Fort Cumberland, where he expected to find Col Dunbar by
that time arrived. That he should then Learn what he pro-
posed to do, and if he should Resolve to make another
Attempt before he could receive Instructions from home, He
(the Lieut Governor) should perhaps be under a Necessity of
meeting the Assembly again and Solliciting them to send
them a Re-inforcement and a Quantity of Provisions and
Ammunition. That the Subscription which had been made
would at least Enable him to keep up a Company of Rangers
for the Protection of the Frontiers.
The 11th of August .... The Lieut Governor writes to the
Lord Proprietor as follows ....
In my Letter dated the 23d of July I Gave your Lordship an
Account of Genl Braddock's misfortune near the Banks of
Monongahala and acquainted your Lordship that I was then
proceeding towards Wills's Creek Principally with a View of
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