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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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456 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. I. 		sive Fort at Winchester & it is reported they will remove thither
the Stores from Fort Cumberland & abandon that place. I
have not lately received any Advices from the Northward but
by what I can find our Troops in that part of the Continent
are not expected to perform great Exploits this Season.
General Abercrombie & the Forces that embarked with him
are arrived & Lord Loudon with two more Regiments is daily
expected. Your Favour by General Webb I have received &
in Consequence thereof begun a Correspondence with that
Gent" I hope you beleive that I shall always pay the greatest
Regard to your Recommendations & endeavour to shew on
every Occasion that I am &c —

Letter Bk. III 		; [Sharpe to Maj. Gen. Abercromby.]

Fort Frederick 17th Iuly 1756.
Sr
I do myself the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of your
Favour by Major Rutherford & to congratulate you on your
Arrival in America where I heartily wish you all happiness &
Success I beg you will think that nothing shall be wanting on
my Part to promote & forward the Service in which Major
Rutherford & the other Gentlemen of the Royal Americans
are at this time engaged, I have already writ to our Magis-
trates to assist the Recruiting Parties that may be ordered to this
Province & to contribute towards the Completion of that Corps
as much as lies in their power. I am much obliged to your
Excellency for forwarding to me the packett from the Secre-
tary of State, in Obedience to Mr Fox's Letter I have already
sent a particular Account of the State & Condition of this
Province in a Lettr directed to Colo Webb or the Commander
in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in America which I presume
will be laid before you & at the same time I also informed him
that the Assembly of this Province has lately granted the Sum
of £40000 Currency or £25,000 Stg for His Majesty's Service
part thereof is particularly appropriated to build a Fort on the
Frontiers of this Province & to support two Companies of 100
Men each till next Feby for the Protection of our Back-Inhab-
itants but the greater Part is given for the Encouragement
of an Expedition to the Westward should such a one be
approved of & the two neighbouring Colonies contribute
towards carrying it on, in that Case the Money abovementioned
is made payable to the Commander in Chief of such Expedi-
tion & the Treasurers will accept his Orders for the same, but
if no such Expedition be resolved on I must meet the Assem-
bly to get it otherwise appropriated as soon as I receive Orders

 

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