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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 459
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Morning; As I have been unfortunately so long detained in
my Passage I find it indispensably necessary that I go up
immediately to the Army. I must proceed accordingly. I
herewith send your Honour the Letters of Mr Fox his Maj-
esty's Secretary of State, and of the Earl of Halifax his Maj-
esty's first Lord Commissioner of the Board of Trade. I do
from your Zeal and Attachment to his Majesty's Service, and
from the Loyalty and good Dispositions of your people, depend
upon all Assistance that the State & Circumstances of your
Province is able to give me.
I will beg your Honour to assure the good People of your
Province, that they may depend upon my protection, and my
utmost Care to avoid and remove (as far as the Circumstances
of a Country become the Seat of War will admit) every thing
that may any way burthen, or hurt the Interest of any Individual.
I shall on all Occasions, and in every thing relative to the
Service and Interest of the Colonies communicate with your
Honour, and beg at all times to be favoured from you with all
Matters of Advice and Intelligence relative to the same, and
shall impatiently expect the Returns you are directed to send.
I beg you to be assured, that I am with the highest Esteem
Sr
Your Honours most obedient and most
humble Servant
Loudoun
The honble Horatio Sharp Esqr
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Liber J. R.
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[Peters to Sharpe.]
Philadelphia July 29 1756
Sir: His Honour our Governor being on the Frontiers at
Easton, holding a Treaty with a Chief or two of the Six
Nations, as Mediators for our late Enemies the Delawares and
Shawanese and also some of their Chiefs: I am ordered by the
Council immediately to dispatch this Express with the inclosed
packett from Lord Loudon for your Excellency and seven
others vizt two for Virginia, two for North Carolina, two for
South Carolina and one for Georgia, which his Excellency
Lord Loudon desires the favour of you to forward by Express.
We received Letters this morning from our Governor
advising the Council that he finds the Indians well disposed
for an Accomodation with us and that he has a fair prospect
of making a good Peace with them: but as they had not
entered upon the substantial part of the Treaty having only
just got thro' the Formalities, I cannot give you any particulars
of it. The Six Nation Chief who is the Speaker and Manager
at the Treaty for the Indians declares himself most agreably
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