Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 515

send you a Copy, however Briefly it Contains Numerous
Observations and Explanations on the bad Plan w^th Errors
from Search of the Rent Rolls for — Three Countys on the
Western Shore rec^d from him and where in I say to him

" I Can assure you the Governor has done you no wrong,
therefore hope you'l not Conceive Iealosy against him who
realy reguards you and I hope my Lord will Benefit from y^r
Service and that you will Convince him thereof in the Execu-
tion of the Plans of his Affairs you have rec^d from me the Con-
fusion of the Mannors and Rentals you say you'l rectifye.
My Lord doubts not y^r Service, but thinks y^r delay Tedious
his Delay thereof was the Motive that made my Lord send you
his Instructions for the Causing the return of his Rentals to him,
therefore it is strange that he seems to think that you take
upon you in Giving Peremptory Orders ab^t the Management
of his Lordship's private Affairs —
Especially as you Can produce to him his Lordship's Instruc-
tions to warrant y^r so doing Occation^d by his Neglect; I do
assure you I am Weary'd in Writing to him on that Subject,
in which I Can have no relief therein, but what may result from
y^r Care and Orders for redressing the Same.
The Expedition to Crown Point seems by your Account not
Likely to be Attended w^th Success on our Side as the Provincial
force refused Injunction to Act w^th our Regular Troops, I am
much Concern^d to understand since you Left the Frontiers of
an Accident w^eh has happne'd in Pensilvania to their several
Forts on the Frontiers of that Province particularly to that Fort
Call^d Granville built at Ianicata West of the Susquehannah
River, it Lying near the Borders of Maryland. The Garisson
was Trifling that of a Subaltern w^th Twenty five Men against a
party of French and Indians perhaps Ten times their number,
who found means to Set the Fort on fire it being I Suppose a
Stockade fort of Wood that only serves for Bonfire to the
french from Ignorance in the Pensilvanian Art of War; w^ch you
have remedy'd. and well Considered in the Construction of
Fort Frederick. Built of Stone the only durable Material to
Protect and be of Service against Either a Military or Indian
force, from the Latter Likely to be Secure from harm — tis a
Melancholy Event your Intelligence of the Loss of Oswego
Taken by the French and w^t the "Earl of Loudon Observ's to
you, without the Assistance of the Royal American Regiments
of w^ch he is very Importunate about the Levies w^th you and the
Other Provinces, if not soon Compleated 'tis Greatly to be
Apprehended it will be Difficult to oppose the Enemy, sh^d they
presume to advance into Pensilvania or the Province of New
York. The unhappy Accident must have Struck all w^th Great
Consternation, no Aid Sure will be wanting, as by it Consists
the preservation of Each Particular person, than which it is