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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757

472 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

Parties that Dagworthy sent out on the Alarm discovered Ten
of the Enemy but could not come up with them as they left
their Luggage & ran off as soon as our Men appeared. I find
the People of Frederick have been terrified by these Accidents
at least as much as those of Cumberland County & that if your
distant Inhabitants should once begin to retire to the more
populous parts of Pens^a ours will instantly follow their Example.
I am sorry to find that notwithstanding the unhappy Condition
of many of their Constituents Your Assembly seem still deter-
mined to persevere in their old Course & that the Ease &
Satisfaction which you should have enjoyed is to be all reserved
for your Successor, but since that must be the Case I hope he
will agreeable to Your own Desire soon releive you on Condi-
tion that our Friendship survives your Title & that you will
after you become a private Gentleman continue to favour me
with your Correspondence. If your Assembly should continue
the Act for an Embargo please to advise me thereof that I may
make the proposal to ours tho I apprehend they will not be
very fond of it & will be apt to say that Virg^a as well as Pens^ashould first set us an Example. They are to meet the 4^th of
Oct^r next to hear what has been lately recommended to us &
them by the Secretary of State's Circular Letters particularly by
that concerning Indented Servants. Pray have you seen or
can you get me a Copy of the Act of Parliament that is said
to have been made to impower the Officers to enlist them.
An Extract of such an Act has been produced here but as it is
not authenticated Some of our People question whether they
are obliged to pay strict Obedience thereto. The Officers
however of the Nova Scotia Regiment have enlisted great
Numbers of our Servants & paid for some of them (whose
Term was about to expire) in proportion to the purchase
Money that their Masters gave for them & the time they had
to serve. A few of the Planters it is said have made some
Opposition & taken away their Servants from the Officers but
I shall endeavour to prevent any thing of that Sort for the
future, tho many of the Lower Class of People will be ruined
by these proceedings unless the Assembly grants them Releif,
Pray how is the Act relished in Pens^a I shall only desire our
Assembly to appropriate part of the Ł40000 to reimburse the
Masters whose Servants have or may enlist & as I have no
Favours to ask of them at this time they may possibly come to
some Resolution by the time that the Campaign can be closed
& Lord Loudoun send me farther Orders, how ended Your
Treaty with the Delawares? I beleive their name is not in
great Esteem with our back-Inhabitants notwithstanding Your
Treaty & General Abercrombie's & S^r W^m Iohnson's Lett^rs in
their favour. That you may enjoy perfect health & be happy
is the sincere Wish of D^r S^r &c

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