Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to John Sharpe.]
27th of May 1756.
Dr Br
I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of a Letter you
favoured me with the 1st of Iany but as I have writ a long
Letter to Br Wm that might serve as an answer to it I shall at
present take no farther Notice thereof than to offer & desire
you to accept my most grateful Acknowledgments for your
kind anxiety & generous Endeavours to promote & serve me
beyond what I could desire ask or expect. After sitting 13
Weeks both Houses of our Assembly have agreed on & I have
passed an Act for granting the Sum of £40,000 Currency or
£25,000 Sterlg for His Majesty's Service. Eleven of the forty
are appropriated to build & support a Fort on the North
Mountain at present our Westernmost Frontier tho more than
60 Miles on this Side Fort Cumberland & as many to the
Eastward of some Settlements that our People had made before
these Disturbances happened & continued on some time after
General Braddock's Defeat, to Garrison this Fort & range on
the Frontiers two Companies of 100 Men each are to be raised
& kept up till next February. The Remainder of the Money
granted is to be expended in carrying on an Expedition to the
westward & in making Presents to the Southern Indians, but as
the latter is not to be done unless the Neighbouring Govern-
ments appoint Commissioners to treat with & make presents to
the Indians also, nor any Troops to be raised in this Province
for an Expedition till I have received Assurances from Gov-
ernors Dinwiddie & Morris that their respective Assemblies will
grant a proportionable & reasonable Quota of Men & Money
for that Service I am apt to think that the whole Sum granted
except the £11000 abovementioned will remain in Bank till I
convene the Assembly again next Spring. I do not apprehend
that any part of the Supply Bill will be disagreeable or objected
to by His Lordship unless it be a Clause which imposes the
same Tax on His Ldp's Mannour Lands & such others as are
leased out as it does on the Lands which have been granted
away or patented by the Lords Proprietary & are held & occu-
pied by the Inhabitants of this Province. As I have some
reason to think that your good Services will be absolutely
necessary to reconcile His Lordsp to this Bill tho in fact the
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