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not think their Resolutions even now manifest any great Zeal
for His Majestys Service. I have not heard how the £30,000
that they have granted is appropriated but I suppose the great-
est part of it is for the Support of Troops to garrison the Stoc-
cado Forts & patroll on their own Frontiers, as more than the
£60000 granted last year for that purpose is already expended.
In my Lettr dated the 13th Septr I advised Yr Ldp of the neces-
sity I was under of ordering some Detachments of Militia to
march to Conegochiegh & cover that Settlement, This has
been attended with the Consequence that I hoped it would.
The People who abandoned their Habitations are again
returned & as no Indians have since appeared there I hope
they will not lose the Season of sowing their Grain which
would be attended next year with the most fatal Consequences.
Colonel Lloyd I hear will dispatch a Vessel for London the
20th of this Month, by her I shall address myself again to Your
Ldp & beg leave to assure your Ldp that I am
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
5th of Octr 1756 transmitted by Capt.
Sr
In my Lettr dated the 14th Septr I informed you that the Assem-
bly was to meet that afternoon in Consequence of a Lettr that
the Earl of Loudoun had writ to me upon receiving an Accot of
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