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incroachments are not suppressed & prevented, yet nothing
have they contributed toward supporting the Cause; but New
York Govl has voted for the Govr of Virginia's use five thou-
sand Pounds, & it is expected the Assembly of Virginia which
is now sitting will pass an Act for 20,000 or 30000^ at least ;
in that Case I hope with our Assistance Govr Dinwiddie will
be able to make a vigorous Effort before Winter & repulse
these Troops, whose Progress has already strangely terrified
our back Inhabitants, many of whom conceive themselves in
immediate Danger. Our Company is near half compleated &
I purpose soon to order them out to the Frontiers of Frederick
County, where Colo Cressap has contracted to supply them
with Provisions. I have given the Command thereof to one
Capt. Dagworthy a Gentn born in the Jerseys, who commanded
a Company raised in that Province for the Canada Expedition
since the miscarriage of which he has resided in this Province
upon an Estate which he purchased in Worcester County; I have
placed under him 3 Lieutenants & I hope our Company will
not in any respect make the worst Appearance of any on the
Expedition. Inclosed arc Seconds of four Bills of Exch. sent
with my last to the amount of £125 which I hope you will
safely receive, & I will for the future send my Bills rather
before the Day appointed if possibly I can, lest the Delay of
them should at any time put you to inconvenience which would
give very great uneasiness to Sr &c
I have taken the Liberty to direct for his Ldp a pipe of the
best Madeira wine that I could procure, wch I hope his Ldp will
do me the honour to accept & you will be kind enough upon
the Captains Application to let him have the inclosed Bill of
Lading to get it signed & returned me. H S.
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p. 83
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[Dinwiddie to Sharpe.]
Virga Williamsburg Septr 5th 1754
Sr
Yr kind favo of the 20th of Augst I recd & should have
answered before this, but waited the result of our assembly,
which I prorogu'd yesterday, after doing Nothing to support
the present Expedition.
On their first meeting they seemed greatly inclined to give
a handsom supply, I pressed the absolute Necessity thereof
with all the Interest I had & they accordingly voted 20,000
which gave me much Pleasure; but the Day after, on the third
reading of the Bill, they loaded it with a Rider for paying Pay-
ton Randolph Esqr (the Person they sent Home to complain
against me) £2500, as the Council had formerly rejected a
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