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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 195

rency or £2835 Stg & that the Agent Victualler's Account for
supplying with Provisions from the 8th of Octr last to that
time amounts to £2970. 15 Currency exclusive of a Hospital
Account & the Expence of carrying Provisions from Fort
Frederick to Fort Cumberland. There is likewise a consid-
erable sum due to him for Victualling the several Parties of
Indians that have been at those Forts since the Beginning of
April 1757, but what the exact Sum is I do not as yet know.
You have been already told that our Lower House of
Assembly gave it as their opinion in October last that no
Forces which should be placed as a Garrison in Fort Cumber-
land could contribute in any manner whatever to the Security
of the Province, they Resolved also at the same time that they
would neither pay nor victual any men that should be there-
after sent or ordered to garrison that place. When I sent the
Earl of Loudoun Advice of the Assembly's having come to
such a Resolution & intreated him to order some of His Maj-
esty's regular Troops to march & take Possession of that
place lest the Maryland Forces should hear that the Assembly
had granted no money for their farther Support & should
thereupon abandon it His Ldp was pleased to tell me that it
was extreemly inconvenient to move the Troops at such a
Distance at that Season of the year & that therefore if I would
keep up the Maryland Forces or as many of them as might
be necessary to garrison Fort Cumberland he would engage
to pay them & to pay for the Provisions that might be deliv-
ered to them while they should continue in the Service as you
will see by the inclosed Copy of His Ldp's Letter. In obedi-
ence to His Ldp's orders & to the orders of the Generals who
succeeded him in the Command of His Majesty's Forces in
America our Troops have been kept up till this time, most of
them have remained constantly at Fort Cumberland & many
of the Rest have been employed in convoying them Pro-
visions, our Assembly have met twice since I received the
Earl of Loudoun's Letter but all my Endeavours to prevail
with them to grant a Sum of money to pay off the Arrears
that were due to our Troops & to Mr Ross for Victualling
them proved fruitless. It would be unnecessary to trouble
you with a Detail of all that passed between the Assembly &
me while they were sitting relative to our Troops but it might
not perhaps be amiss to inform you that in an Address which
the Lower House of Assembly presented me the 17th of April
they spoke of the five Companies which were at that time &
are still in Garrison at Fort Cumberland & Fort Frederick as
Companies in the Service & Pay of this Province & said that
they presumed it was the reasonable Dependance which those
Soldiers had that the several Branches of the Legislature 		Letter Bk. III


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