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

Letter Bk. I. between the two Houses on the Supply Bill I have sent you a
Copy of an Address that was presented to Myself remon-
strating agst the Orders that with the Advice of the Council I
issued some time ago to the Captains of some Companies of
Militia in Kent & Queen Anns Counties, I likewise send you
a Copy of my answer to it which I have ordered to be printed
in the Gazette not doubting but the People will be thereby
undeceived with respect to several Matters that have been
grossly misrepresented to them. In my last Letter I told you
it was generally expected that the Assembly of Pensilvania
would break up without doing any thing for His Majesty's
Service. They did so at that time but after 10 Days they
met again & offered the Governor such a Bill for raising
£100,000 as he was prevailed on to pass tho it appears from
his Message to the Assembly which you will find in the
inclosed Gazette that it was with the greatest Reluctance he
did so. I am glad however that he came to such a Resolution
as the Expedition which Brigadier Forbes is about to under-
take might otherwise have been very hazardous. It is said
that the Virginia & Pensilvania Officers recruit with great
Success & that their Numbers will in all probability be com-
p. 346 pleated before the General will be in readiness to march as
the Ship that was bound to Philaa with Artillery & Stores for
this Expedition is not yet arrived. Colo Bouquet with the
four Companies of the first Battalion of the Royal American
Regiment is marched from Philaa towards the Frontiers of
Pensilvania but we have not yet received any Account of the
Arrival of Colo Montgomerie with his Battalion from Carolina.
As Fort Frederick is to be the Place of Rendezvous for the
Regulars & the Pensilvania Forces our Frontier Inhabitants
cannot be in any Danger till the Troops move from that Place
before that time I shall repair thither & agreeable to the
Advice of the Council shall order two or three Compahies of
Militia to march & do Duty in the Fort & on the Frontiers
during the Continuance of the Expedition. It is rumoured
that Admiral Boscawen is arrived at Hallifax but this is not so
certain as that the Transports are sailed from Boston N York
& Philaa with the Troops that embarked at those Places.
I send you by this opportunity the Power of Attorney from
Mr Benja Ogle & in a Letter directed to my Brother Joshua is the
Power from the Young Gentleman's Guardians. The Leaves
that you speak of at the End of Ann Arundel Rent Roll is no
more than an Index to the Book, & the Figures denote the
Pages where the Names of the several Tracts of Land are
entered. Mr Tasker never gave me any Papers relative to
Mr Hides Affairs unless they were contained in a Letter that
he might have desired me to transmit with my own Packet to


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