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368 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Encouraging the Distant Inhabitants to remain in their Planta-
tions, which the Terror of the Indians Incursions and the
Alarming news of the General's 111 Success Inclined them to
relinquish and Desert; Those that I mett flying from the
Frontiers I prevailed upon to return back, and by ordering
some small Forts to be built at proper distances from each
other in the Western part of Frederick County whereunto the
People may resort in Case of Alarms; I hope I have made
and left them pretty well Satisfyed and Contented, Each of
those Forts I have Garrisoned with a few men who have my
orders to Patroll from one to the other, and keep a Communi-
cation Free and open; These men I am Enabled to Support
by a Subscription that has been made by the Gentlemen of this
and some of the other Counties, and from the same Fund I
Subsist the Maryland Company by Capt" Dagworthy that
march'd with the General; But which is now left with the Vir-
ginia and North Carolina Troops at Fort Cumberland under
the Command of Governor Innes.
And in this Letter he mentions Govr Morris's having Con-
vened the Assembly of Pensilvania in hopes to raise money for
His Majesty's Service, And that if they prepared such a Bill as
would be agreeable to their Governor; he should also meet the
Assembly of Maryland upon the same occasion in hopes they
might (notwithstanding their late Resolves) be perswaded to
waive the Points contended for.
In another Letter of the same date he mentions Forts which
he had ordered to be built, one on Tonallaway and three under
the North Mountain.
The 9th of September 1755 .... Immediately upon Advice
received of Genl Braddock's Defeat, The Lord Proprietor (in
Complyance with the Resolves of the Assembly who had so
often refused to Grant any money for His Majesty's Service
without an Appropriation of His Lordship's Fines arising from
Ordinary Licences to which he had an indisputable Right under
his Charter Exercised for many years by his Ancestors and
never relinquish'd) did by a Special Instruction Issued on that
occasion, Authorize his Lieutenant Governor to pass an Act of
Assembly in Aid of Money Loan, by which for the better Sup-
port and Defence of the Common Cause against the Enemy,
His Lordship gave up His Right not only to the Ordinary
Licences which alone had been estimated by the Lower House
at £640 p Ann (and are in reality of near double that Value)
But also of Hawkers & Pedlars & the Money arising by such
Licences with the ffines & fforfeitures to be Appropriated for
a time to the Comon Cause. Giving with pleasure his Interest
in Both to & for the service of His Majesty & the defence &
Safety of the Province.
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