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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 555


 

 

Mortification to find that no Arguments which I could use
had any weight with them & that they were obstinately bent
on having all the Troops in the Pay of this Province with-
drawn & it was not till the last Day of the Session which was the
9th Inst that they would agree to issue Pay or Provisions for the
Men that had been sent thither under Dagworthy's Command.
Finding that all our Troops must be disbanded or some Con-
cessions made I have assented to their Bill upon Condition
that as many of the 500 Men as can be spared without leaving
the Frontier Inhabitants quite exposed shall be under the
Command of Colo Stanwix to be disposed of as he shall judge
proper with this Reserve that no Captains nor whole Compa-
nies shall be posted as a fixed Garrison in Fort Cumberland.
This I have already sent Colo Stanwix Advice of & expect in
a Day or two to receive his Answer to my Letter. It gives
me a good deal of Concern to find myself obliged by a Remon-
strance which has been sent me by two of the Circuiting
Judges of this province & was presented to them by the
Grand Jury of one of our Counties agst the Conduct of Lieutn
Sterling & Ensign Calder of His Majesty's 48th & 44th Regi-
ments & the Recruiting parties under their Command to men-
tion those Gentlemen to your Ldp. By the Advice of the
Council before whom the Remonstrance & Affidavits con-
cerning the Transactions of this Parties have been laid I send
them all inclosed to your Ldp together with Copies of three
Bills of Indictment that have been found agst several of the
Soldiers one for attacking in a hostile manner the Crew of a
Vessel that lay in one of our Rivers & the other for outrageous
Assaults on sundry Persons & on the high Sheriff of the
County in his own house. While I was at Philaa a Petition was
presented to your Ldp by one Mr Wethered praying an Allow-
ance for a House of his which had been accidentally burnt by
some Soldiers who were quartered in this Province I take
this opportunity to acquaint your Ldp that agreeable to your
Desire I have prevailed with the Assembly of this Province to
give him the sum of £300 which is supposed to be the Value
of the House & what was destroyed —
Letter Bk. III

[Holdernesse to Sharpe.]

Duplicate Whitehall May 20. 1757
Sir
The inclosed Extract of a Letter from Vice Adml Townshend
to Mr Clevland, together with the Affidavits thereunto annexed
will inform you of the pyratical Behaviour of several Privateers
fitted out in North America towards the Spaniards in the


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