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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 489
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[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
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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 &
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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
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