America, as well in Relation to the Ordnance and Stores of
War which are in each Colony respectively as to the Forts and
Fortifications & the Number of their Inhabitants, it is the
King's Pleasure, that you should prepare and transmit to the
Earl of Loudoun, or the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's
Forces for the Time being, an exact & particular account
thereof, with Respect to the Colony under your Government,
in which you are to express the present actual State & quantity
of the Canon, small Arms, Amunition and other Ordnance
and Military Stores, belonging to the said Colony, either in
the publick Magazines, or in the Possession of the Militia, or
other private Persons, together with the true State of all Places,
either already fortified or which you judge forthwith necessary
to be fortified with your opinion at large in what manner His
Majesty may farther contribute to the Security & Defence of
the said Colony & also as exact an Account as you can obtain
of what Number the Militia is composed, and how armed,
mustered & trained,
I am
Sir
Your most obedient
humble Servant
P. S. H Fox
Your Letter of Octr 8th
has been received
Deputy Governor of Maryland.
Original. [Morris to Sharpe.]
Sir,
I congratulate you on General Shirley's Nomination, and the
Vote of your Assembly which I hope they will carry into
execution & raise the Money time enough to answer the
Publick Purposes.
My Assembly have been sitting from the 3d of Feby but have
come to no Resolutions as to the part they will take in the
operations of the summer, and are now adjourned for a fort-
night, which in my mind, after such a delay amounts to a dec-
laration that they do not intend to do more than they have
already done; but I may be mistaken.
We have in this Province no Cannon but what are mounted
upon a Battery near Philada they are Iron of 18, 24, & 32
pound shot, and are the property of private Men.
The friendly Indians that Remain with us are very few and
they are so much affraid of being near the frontiers, where they
may be mistaken for Enemies that I have removed them to
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