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56 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
p. 32
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I am sorry at being unable to put the Scheme your Ldp: was
pleased to intimate for compleating the Governour's House in
execution; for want of being covered the House is now reduced
to so bad a State (the Timber work being mostly wasted &
demolished) that less than £300 or £ 400. will not put it in the
Condition it was left in by the workmen, & I apprehend to
perfect it would require as many Thousand, so large a sum it is
impracticable to raise by Lottery in these parts where it is with
the greatest Difficulty that £100 or £200 can be raised by that
method for executing any work of the most general Utility.
As the objection that many of the Lower House make to
advancing a sum of Money for its Completion is, that they
conceive the House is now become absolutely irreparable, I
would engage (was that sufficient) to get a Subscription of
£150 — to shingle it, & by recovering it to its pristine appear-
ance obviate that Objection, but as such a sum is much too
trivial, unless your Ldp would be pleased to increase it; I must
rest till a fair Occasion offers for pressing it to the Assembly ;
which I will endeavour to do in the most effectual manner, but
cannot think of attempting it till after the Dissolution of this
Assembly in November next, as the Incursions of the French
on His Majesty's Dominions oblige me to push them on the
disagreeable Business of granting money for that purpose at
this time, & as it is too notorious that They always shew greater
Backwardness in every last session to do any thing generous,
lest it should induce their Electors to reject them when they
offer themselves Candidates at the ensuing Election.
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p. 33
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I met the Assembly the 25th of March upon the Business
that was mentioned in my Letter dated the 10th of Feby the
Contents of which I hope e'er this your Ldp is acquainted with,
but neither my utmost Efforts or the Example of the Virginians
who had just then granted the Sum of £10,000 for that pur-
pose could induce them to make the least Provision for the
Encouragement of the Ohio Expedition. — That a Sum of
Money should be given for Commissioners to-be at the Inter-
view propoocd to be held with the Indiana at Albany was pretty
readily voted; but the Method proposed for raising it was such
as could not be concurred with. The whole proceedings of
the Session I have transmitted in the Journal of both Houses,
& hope my Conduct with respect to that Affair will not appear
to merit your Ldp's Disapprobation. The repeated Sollicita-
tions of the neighbouring Governments who begin to be
alarmed at the progress & at their summoning a Fort which
the Virginians had built on their Frontiers to surrender have
induced me to meet the Assembly of this Province again the
8th Inst. to procure if possible a more satisfactory answer to
the Letter from the Lds of Trade as well as the Govr of Vir-
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