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find it necessary you may assure the Men that they will not
be required to go a Step beyond Fort Frederick, nor detained
on the Frontiers longer than two Months on any Account
whatever: you will send me a Roll of the Names of the
Men that march as soon as the Company has moved, and I
hope to receive it about the End of next Week at farthest.
I am &c.
To Col. Veazey H. S.
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[Denny to Sharpe.]
Philadelphia 10 March 1758
Sir
The inclosed are Duplicates of those sent to you the 6th
Instl which with two Letters directed to the Senior Captains
of His Majesties Ships at Virginia & South Carolina were
sent from Commodore Darell to forward to the Southern
Governors therefore request you woud be pleased to dispatch
the same agreable to their respective directions. I am
Your Excellencys Most obedient humble Servant
Governor Sharpe William Denny
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[Sharpe to Blair (President of Virginia).]
10th of March 1758.
Sir
As I find by the Contents of one which I have myself
received that the four Packetts herewith sent require Dispatch
I have engaged an Express to proceed with them immediately
to Williamsburg. I understand that they were brought to N
York by a Man of War that is just arrived there but no other
Letters from England are yet come to hand neither do we
know the Event of the Expedition against Ticonderoga. I am
[Sharpe to Denny.]
10th of March 1758—
Sir
I this morning received Your Letter of the 7th Inst together
with the five Packetts therein mentioned four of which I
immediately dispatched to Virginia. Colonel Haldiman tells
me that Le Plante was re-delivered to the Keeper of our
Prison thro some mistake of the Serjeant that was charged
with him; As this is the Case He will continue here till the
Colonel has another Opportunity of sending him either to
Lancaster or Phila The Serjeant was only desired to take the
Deserter Le Fievre with him on a Supposition that he would
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