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504 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I
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stance. We have thought proper to recommit him for another
Examination next week & in the mean time the Attorney
General who is gone to Baltimore Court will endeavour to
learn where some Parties that the Prisoner has named & where
the Priest particularly might be found for as he has no certain
Abiding place, but resides sometimes in this Province & some-
times in Pensa it might not perhaps be easy to apprehend him.
Since Iohnson has been remanded to Prison I have received
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another Lett" from Colo Steven dated at Fort Cumberland the
25th of Ocf wherein he tells me that on the 19th of that Month
a Party from that Garrison discovered near the Fort & took
Prisoner an Irish Papist that had deserted thence to the Enemy
about 3 Weeks before & was now come back as a Guide to a
party that was advancing towards our Settlements. The
Enemy it seems were somewhat suspicious of him & as they
came by Fort Cumberland insisted on his performing some
notable Exploit in or about that place to convince them of his
fidelity, & promised on his giving them that Satisfaction to
confide in him as they had heretofore in Johnson who they said
was a faithfull Fellow & one that had never disappointed nor
deceived them. This Declaration the Deserter made just
before he was hanged & Colo. Ste'ven immediately advised me
thereof, lest Johnson should impose on me as he had done on
him & thereupon obtain his Liberty. I am in hopes that the
Fate of these two Spies will save Fort Cumberland this Winter
& deter others from approaching so near, but unless we pursue
other Measures next year than we have lately in these Colo-
nies I think we can expect nothing less than that the Enemy
will make themselves Masters of that Place.
The last Advices that we received from the Northward were
that the French Army at Crown Point is much superiour to that
which Lord Loudoun commands on Lake George & that His
Ldp was intrenching himself under the Fort that Sr Wm Iohn-
son built last Summer on the Brink of the Lake. His Lordship
has we hear writ to Governor Denny & demanded of the Pens"
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Assembly a large Sum of Money for His Majesty's Service &
also required them to build Barracks at Phil for the Recep-
tion & Accommodation of a Battalion of the Royal American
Regiment, It is said that the Assembly are by no means
pleased with this manner of writing however they thought
proper to comply with His Ldp's Requisition concerning the
Barracks, what Resolution they are likely to come to on the
other part of His Ldp's Letter we do not yet hear but I am
afraid they will scarcely answer the Earl of Loudoun's Expec-
tations. For my own Part I am convinced that neither the
Assembly of that nor this Province have any thing so much at
heart as the Increase of their own Power & Importance & as
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