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162 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
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as I was unwilling to make Complaints or to trouble Your
Ldp about such an Affair but having now an opportunity I
have taken the Liberty to charge your Ldp with that Sum wch
I flatter myself Your Ldp will approve of, Colo Lloyd not
having been over here since he made up his last Years Ac-
count with the Naval Officers he has not yet accounted with
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me for the whole Duty of one Shilling p Hhd that was col-
lected last year but when he does come over which he will
perhaps during the Provincial Court I will get an Account
signed by him & will remit the same to Your Ldp by the first
opportunity that offers. I am wth the greatest Respect My Ld
Yr Ldp's most obliged & most obedt Servt
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to Forbes.]
27th of March 1758.
Sir
I embrace an Opportunity that offers to acknowledge the
Receit of Your Letter dated the 21st of this Month & to assure
you that as soon as a sufficient Number of the Members of
our Assembly can be got together I shall communicate to
them the Contents of Mr Pitt's Letter & use my utmost En-
deavours to persuade them to raise as large a Number of
Men as possible for the Service of the ensuing Campaign but
at the same time I think it my Duty to inform you that the
late Proceedings of our Assembly have been such as afford
me too much room to fear that my Endeavours will be inef-
fectual I inclose you a Return of the Troops that are or were
lately employed in the Service of this Province, about 350 of
them including officers are I believe good Men & very proper
for Rangers but as it is already more than 5 Months since
they received any Pay I am afraid they will think of disband-
ing themselves before the Campaign opens. I wrote to Gen-
eral Abercromby a few Days ago on this Head & took the
Liberty to inclose him a Copy of a Letter that the Earl of
Loudoun was pleased to send me when our Assembly came
to a Resolution last Winter that they would no longer provide
for the Support of any Men that should from that time be
kept as a Garrison in Fort Cumberland by this Letter His
Ldp gave me Leave to assure the officers & men that in Case
the Assembly should decline it he would engage to see them
paid as long as they should continue in the Service & on this
Footing have our Troops been kept up ever since that time.
Should Genera] Abercromby be inclined to fulfil the Earl of
Loudoun's Engagement I flatter myself you will find them of
considerable Service but if His Excellency disapproves of the
Proposition I have made him He will I doubt not have advised
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