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probable this Fortification will cost the province £2000. but I
am told that one is raising at Winchester in Virga that will not
be built for less than four times that Sum & when finished will
not be half so good. We have now recruiting Parties in every
County, from the Royal Americans & the Nova Scotia Regi-
ments who distress the people exceedingly by taking their
Servants agreeable to the Act of Parliament which is said to
have passed however I think the People richly deserve it, they
have brought it on themselves & they & the Pensilvanians will
feel the Burthen of it as there are more Indented Servants in
these two Colonies than in all the Rest & as the people cannot
well manage their Business without their Assistance. Some
of our Planters in Baltimore have I hear risen on the Officers &
rescued their Servants by force but I shall instantly take
effectual Measures to prevent Attempts of that Sort for the
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future, lest the Officers should complain that His Majesty's
Service is obstructed by Connivance of the Government.
This I foresee will lay me under great Difficulties, for the
People how ungrateful soever they may be will expect that
I should protect them, & my giving the least Countenance to
the Recruiting Officers will probably bring on me the ill Will
of the people, while both my Duty to His Majesty & the
present State of our Affairs on the Continent incline or rather
compel me to encourage the Recruiting Service to the utmost
of my power
I am Sr &c.
P. S. Since the above was writ I have received Letters
advising me that a party of Indians came down from Pensa
on the Inhabitants of this Province who dwelt near Conego-
chiegh & have cut off many of them, thus if the Pensilvanians
do not stand their Ground we shall have not only a Western
but a Northern Frontier also to defend agst those Savage
Enemies.
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[Denny to Sharpe.]
Philadelphia August 23d 1756 —
Sir
The Proprietaries having done me the Honor, with the Kings
Approbation, to appoint me the Governor of this Province, I
take this opportunity to inform you of my having published
their Commission and taken upon me the Administration.
I shall be extreamly glad to embrace all occasions of pro-
moting his Majesty's Service and the General Interest of the
Colonies, and as without an Union of Councils and a good
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