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494 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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A very worthy Friend of mine has requested me to recom-
end one James McLoghlin to you, who intends to apply for
the Sherriffs office of Kent County, and it is with some diffi-
culty I have prevaild with myself to mention him, But as I do
not know the man, I can only desire you will permit him to lay
his pretentions before you, and if he has sufficient merit I am
sure he will stand in need of no other recomendation to you.
I wish you much health and success in every affair you
undertake and am with great truth Dr Sir
Your Most obedt
Humble servt
Robt H. Morris
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[Sharpe to Dinwiddie.]
10th of Octr 1756
Sr
Inclosed you receive a Lettr that should have been sent a
Fortnight ago but the Post was just gone for Virga before it
was delivered at the Office I am now to inform you that our
Assembly & I took Leave of each other yesterday after having
made an Act for appropriating £3000 to raise 300 Men for the
Royal American Regiment; £2000 to purchase & transport a
quantity of Wheat to New York for the Use of the Army & a
Sum of Money for finishing Fort Frederick, & raising another
Company of 100 Men for the better Protection of our Frontier
Inhabitants. I would have persuaded them to send a greater
number of Recruits instead of Wheat to His Ldp but as it was
determined by a Majority that the Latter can be more easily
spared this year than the other no Regard was paid to my
Representations, & as little to that Lettr of the Secretary of
State which recommends it to us to promote the Recruiting
Service by making the Masters of such Servants as may enlist
some Satisfaction. I am glad to hear of Success with Your
Assembly We were advised of the Dispatch you made when
we had been sitting three weeks & I am inclined to think the
Intelligence prevented our sitting twice as long on less Busi-
ness than you finished in five Days. Sr Iohn St Clair was well
at Albany the 22d of Septr but about to proceed to Lake
George with what Design he does not say, neither can I learn
from any one else what Motions are making in that part of the
Continent. I do not find that any Indians have lately appeared
on the Frontiers of Pensilvania or this Province which has
encouraged the people of Conegochiegh to return again to
their respective Habitations. We are told by a Person from
Phila that a Vessel just arrived there from Europe brings an
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