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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 489
 

 

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

3d Octr 1756.
My Ld
When I last did myself the honour to write to your Ldp I
acquainted you with my having issued a Proclamation for the
Assembly to meet the Day after; I now send your Ldp a Copy
of my Speech at the Opening of the Session with the Addresses
of both Houses in Answer thereto. Your Ldp will observe
that I recommended nothing more to the Assembly than what
I was obliged to do by the Letters that I had received from the
Secretary of State & Lord Loudoun lest they should by a Mul-
tiplicity of Business be diverted from that on which they were
more especially convened. Notwithstanding this precaution
the Managers contrived to hinder the House from doing any
thing for a Fortnight & then prevailed on them to desire me
to communicate to them whatever Matters I intended to lay
before them this Session. This was done that if possible an


Letter Bk. I.
p. 229

Occasion might be thence taken to throw something into the
Bill that should overset it, but I am in hopes that their Views
have been in a great measure disappointed as I learn a Bill is
brought into the House for appropriating £5000 towards
raising Men in this Province for the Royal American Regiment
& another part of the £40000 to compleat Fort Frederick &
raise another Company of a hundred Men for the Protection
of our Frontiers. A Bill is also brought into the House for
the better Regulation of the Militia but as there has not as
yet been any Debate thereon I cannot say what will be the Fate
of it tho I doubt the People in general are very averse to any
such Law. As Lord Loudoun on receiving Intelligence of the
Loss of Oswego writ in the most pressing & importunate man-
ner for a number of Recruits & promised that if the Assembly
would not be prevailed on to make provision for repaying the
Bounty Money that I might advance he would engage to see
me reimbursed I sent Instructions to the Colonels of Militia &
engaged other Gent" to enlist Men in their respective Counties
I have not yet received Returns from all of them but I con-
clude from what I have already sent hither that I shall by these
means get a hundred men for His Ldp before the Assembly
has made any provision for that Service. The Virginia As-
sembly did not meet till more than a Week after ours but I
hear they have already made provision for raising 500 men &
p. 230

transporting them to the Royal American Regiment at New
York. I have not received any authentic & Circumstantial
Account of the Siege & Surrendry of Oswego but herewith I
transmit to yr Ldp in the Gazette such particulars as are come
to us & which give us room to hope that the Indian Intelligence
p. 231
 

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