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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761

114 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. II]

that your Ldp might see after what an easy & simple manner
considerable sums of money can be raised in this Province to
pay Assembly Mens wages & other publick Debts when His
Majesty's service does not come in question I take the Lib-
erty to inclose a Copy of a Law that was made here very
lately for raising upwards of Ł30000 & just such another Bill
will I doubt not be framed for the same Purpose within these
two or three years. In hopes that your Ldps Business will
not detain you much longer at N York & imagining you
would be willing to see the Gentⁿ of our Assembly I have
only prorogued them to the 17^th of Ian^y but if Your Ldp
should be obliged to defer Your Journey to Annapolis beyond
that time or not be desirous of meeting them at all You will
be pleased to favour me with timely notice that I may pro-
rogue the Assembly to a longer Day, for it is my opinion that
It would answer no End for me to meet them again after what
hath passed, at least for some time & untill Your Ldp can be
present.
In behalf & at the earnest Request of the Inhabitants of this
small Place I take the Liberty to represent to your Ldp the
great Inconveniences to which they are subjected by having
so great a Number as five Companies of Soldiers quartered
on them whom they are obliged to furnish with Lodging &
Necessaries at their own private Expence. They made fre-
quent Application to the Assembly for Assistance both before
& after the Bill of which I send Your Ldp a Copy was
rejected but could obtain no Releif. In fact many of the
Gentlemen of the Town are obnoxious to the Lower House
of Assembly on account of their holding offices under the
Govern^t & having Connections with me & therefore the Bur-
gesses were not displeased at seeing them distressed, especi-
ally as they themselves were thereby exempted from bearing
the least share of the Burthen. The Number of Families that
reside in this Place are far short of a hundred & as several of
these are scarcely able to maintain themselves the Gentlemen
are obliged to receive or provide Lodging Fire & necessaries
for 15 or 20 men each. This being the Case I hope Your
Ldp will permit Col^o Haldiman to send some of them to the
neighbouring Towns or if he shall think proper to quarter
them on the Gentⁿ that resides at a small Distance from
Annapolis & can easily accommodate them — Among the
Papers that I send Your Ldp is one which contains the Infor-
mation of a French Deserter & of a Prisoner who were
brought hither a few Days ago from Fort Cumberland. They
were examined by S^r J S^t Clair Col^o Haldiman & myself.
The Cadet I have committed to the Custody of the Sheriff till
I can be honoured with Y^r Ldps orders concerning him —

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