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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 169

me with a speedy answer & if you possibly can to enable me
to fulfill the Earl of Loudoun's Engagement. Did I think
there was the least probability that our two Houses of As-
sembly would agree on a Bill for raising a Sum of Money at
this time for His Majesty's Service or that they would here-
after reimburse the Officers the Expences they may have been
already put to I should not be so pressing but the Gentn who
compose our Lower House of Assembly have come to a Reso-
lution that they will not raise any Money uness the Upper
House will give their Assent to a Bill wch they have twice
refused because they thought it an unconstitutional & unrea-
sonable one, which is much the same as if they had declared
that they would neither provide for the payment of the men
that are now on our Frontiers nor comply in any respect
whatever with His Majesty's Requisition. If you should be
averse to paying off the Arrears that are due to our Troops it
will in my opinion be expedient to order some others to
relieve them as soon as possible lest Fort Cumberland should
e'er long be without a Garrison but this I submit to your
better Judgment. Inclosed you have an Extract of a Speech
that I made Yesterday to the Cherokees that are now at Anna-
polis, they have not yet given me an answer but I under-
stand from the Interpreter that they have had a Council &
arc resolved to comply with my Request in every Respect I
mean that they will immediately send a Party out to the Ohio
with some of our People to get some Prisoners while the Rest
of them range on the Frontiers & that they will certainly join
you at Fort Frederick or the mouth of Conegochiegh at the
End of one month which will in all probability be as soon as
the party can return from the Ohio. 		Letter Bk. III
[St. Clair to Sharpe.]

Philadelphia April the 8th 1758
Dear Sir,
I received your Letter of the 29th of March, two days ago,
with a draft of the environs of Fort Frederick, I have ordered
Lieutenant Bassett, who is one of our Engineer's, to go from
Lancaster and do the Necessary repairs on that Road, and
have given him an Extract of your Letter for his Guidance ;
I have given him money to carry on that Service, to build
Flatts and repair the Magazines at Fort Frederick, I have
wrote to Captain Beall to give him all manner of Assist-
ance, I have sent Capt. Beall 600 dollars which will go
a little way in purchasing Provender until I can get up intp
that Country, which will be about a fortnight hence.
I send you by this Express 600 dollars for Colo Prather,

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