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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 151

Resolution that they would enter on no new Business which
laid me under a necessity of proroguing them as I have
already hinted. This being the Case 1 must leave it to you to
take such Steps for the Preservation of Fort Cumberland as
you shall think fit, for as I have never been authorized to
draw upon any one for money to pay those men that are now
there & that have garrisoned that place during the Winter I
cannot venture to make myself answerable to the Officers for
any especially as the Earl of Loudoun at whose Instance I
have encouraged them to keep their men together till this
time has no longer the Chief Command in America. This I
am advised of by a Letter that I received two Days ago from
Mr Pitt who insists on my convening the Assembly of this
Province again without Delay & enjoins me to urge them in
the most pressing & importunate manner to raise for the
Service of the ensuing Campaign & to provide for the Pay-
ment of as large a Body of Troops as they can afford to act in
Conjunction with such Forces as are to be employed in carry-
ing on offensive measures to the Westward under the Com-
mand of Brigadier General Forbes. Altho I have in fact
already complied with the Tenor of this Letter the Earl of
Loudoun's late Demand being very similar to that which is
now made by Mr Pitt I shall meet the Assembly once more
& give them another opportunity if they are not absolutely
blind to their own Interest, of contributing to the Success of
the next Campaign, but at the same time I think it my Duty
to tell you that my Expectations from this Step are as small
as possible. I should be much obliged to you for favouring
me with an Answer & advising me of the Resolution that you
shall come to in Consequence of this Letter. 		Letter Bk. III
[Gen. Abercromby to Sharpe.]

New York March 15 1758
Sir
By circular Letters from Mr Secretary Pitt bearing Date at
Whitehall Decr 30th 1757, to all his Majesty's Governors on
the Continent of North America from Pensilvania inclusive to
the southward, which Letters arrived here on the 4th Instant
by the Squirrel Ship of War, and were immediately forwarded
to you by Express from Lieutenant Governor Delancy, you
will find, Sir, that the King having judged proper that the
Earl of Loudoun should return to England his Majesty at the
same time was pleased to appoint me to succeed his Lordship
as Commander in Chief of the King's Forces in North America
with the same powers and Authorities, and you will likewise
find that in Pursuance of that Appointment it was his Maj-

Liber J. R.
& U. S.
p. 227


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