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expect to have our French in two months & a half at farthest ;
A Duplicate of this being fixed upon one of the Posts of our
Blockade the Day above named
Con. Villier.
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
Augst 8. 1754.
In obedience to your Ldps Instructions I have writ to yr
Ldps Secy particularly concerning your Ldps private Affairs &
the late publick Transactions in yr Ldp's Province to be sub-
mitted to yr Ldp who will not I hope condemn any part of my
Conduct which I have now taken the Liberty to make known,
herewith I present to your Ldp the grateful Address of the
Trustees of the School yr Ldp is pleased to encourage in
Talbot Cty & I have also obeyed yr Ldps Orders by trans-
mitting by this Conveyance an account of the number of Per-
sons that compose the inferiour Branches of the Legislature of
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this province & also the number of Offices held under yr Ldps
Governt specifying the yearly value of each as near as can be
learnt. I also take the Liberty to inclose your Ldp a Plan that
was proposed by the several Commrs from the neighbouring
Colonies at Albany lately for forwarding a Union between the
several Governrs in order the more easily to defend his Majesty's
American Dominions against the French or any other hostile
forces; which Scheme is to be laid before the Legislature of
the several Provinces at their next Meeting for their Amend--
ment or Approbation; but it has been intimated to me that
the Govr of New York has already without tarrying for the
Opinion of Assemblies transmitted a Copy thereof to the
Board of Trade for their Honours Consideration.
Our Commissioners are just returned & inform us that the
Indians who met them at Albany to the number of about 300
returned well satisfied with the Presents & Treatment they had
received from the several Commrs & before their Departure
after their Receipt of the Presents they took the Opportunity
of a publick Entertainment to express their Acknowledgments
to yr Ldp & this Province & desired your Ldp would deign to
accept from them the inclosed Belt of Wampum in token of
their Affection & Love. In my Letter to yr Ldp's Secy dated
the 3d of May I took notice that the French had about a week
before that time made themselves Masters of a small Fort
which the Virginians had erected on a Branch of the River
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Ohio, after which Accident they that retreated from the fort &
another party from Virginia composing about 300 Men under
the Command of Colo Washington encamped themselves or
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