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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 133
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[B. Hands to Sharpe.]
Sir
On Tuesday last I received the Honour of your Excellency's
verbal Commands by Lieutenant Forty to enquire of Captain
Peregrine Browne whether himself and the Company of
Militia under his Command would march pursuant to your
Instructions given to him, and that I should transmit to your
Excellency his Answer by an Express, I immediately wrote to
him and therein signified your Pleasure this Morning he
came here, said he should have wrote before but yesterday
was appointed for him to meet his Company and receive their
final Resolution, which he says is that they will not march
(8: or 10: excepted) he complains much that the Influence of
those whose particular Duty it ought to have been to have
excited the People to a due Obedience to the Law was want-
ing, and that they were practised on by others not to march
of which he says he hath acquainted your Excellency by the
inclosed Letter, he begs of me to ask if you charged him with
any Letter for Mr Richard Lloyd, he says he thinks you did,
but thro' some unknown Accident he cannot find it, and is
afraid some invidious Reflections may be cast on him for its
being not delivered: by every Thing that I have heard, I truly
believe that Brown would very willingly have marched, and
that he did with becoming Spirit urge every Argument in his
Power to persuade the People thereto: I am your Excellency's
very humble Servt
Chester Jany 20th 1758 B. Hands
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Liber J. R.
& U. S.
p. 221
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[Sharpe to Stanwix.]
22d of January 1758
Dr Sr
I had yesterday the pleasure to receive your Letter of the
13th Inst together with two from the Earl of Loudoun. As I
could not entertain the least hopes of the Assembly's falling
upon a different Plan from that which they pursued during
the late Session till I should be able to communicate to them
His Ldp's Answer to their Address & his opinion on the Bill
which they desired me to send him a Copy of, I found my-
self obliged to prorogue them to a longer Day which by the
Advice of the Council is the 6th of Feby I am not entirely
without hopes that the Gentlemen of the Lower House will be
then prevailed on to comply with His Lordship's Requisition,
tho indeed my Hopes are not very sanguine, on the contrary
I am afraid that altho they may to save Appearances wave
their objections to His Ldp's having the absolute Disposal or
Command of such Troops as they may propose to support yet
that they will take effectual Care to clog any Bill they shall
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