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agreeing at this time to raise & Support Soldiers for the
Defence of that place they should take a Burthen on them-
selves which they will be unable afterwards to get quit of, &
fearing also lest by an officer of ours having the Command of
the Fort the Expence of furnishing all the Indians that may
declare in our favour & come thither with Provisions & other
necessaries should fall on this Province, I say it might be pre-
sumed that such Considerations as these have determined
them to take such a Resolution but whatever their Reasons
are I find they will not recede & therefore I should be much
obliged to you for ordering any Officer who will command
our Subalterns to relieve Dagworthy that himself & his Com-
pany may again be intitled to their Pay & Provisions I shall
order him to leave 120 of our Men as Detachments from his
& the other Companies & as soon as our Troops can be aug-
mented to 500 as proposed the Detachments shall if you think
proper amount to 250. As soon as Colo Stanwix received
my Lett' he wrote to the Officers commanding at Fort Cum-
berland & Fort Frederick to the following purport "As I have
the honour to be left in the Command of these Southern
Provinces My orders to you is this that you continue in this
Command of Fort with your Garrison of Men till
you receive further Orders from me & from me only as you
will be answerable at Your Peril, You are to continue, to
cherish & support the friendly Indians as it has been usual
on this Frontier & have no doubt but proper methods will be
fallen upon to pay this so necessary an Expence & You may
rest assured of my utmost Aid & Assistance in every thing in
my power Governor Sharpe tells me that your Province of
Maryland are for no Captains, you are put under my Com-
mand as one & shall not part with you of whom I have so
good a Character & I will be answerable for Your Pay as long
as you are employed of which at present I can see no End &
both you & Your Company during this Command are entitled
both to your Pay & Provisions let those be who they will that
can be so much an Enemy to their King & Country think or
say otherwise." As the Assembly had shewn such an Aver-
sion to any of the Maryland Troops being posted at Fort
Cumberland the Agents whom they had appointed to pay
them & to contract with a Person to victual them engaged one
Mr David Ross to deliver as much Provisions at Fort Fred-
erick as the Troops should have occasion for, but they would
not be prevailed on to pay for the Carriage of any that should
be sent thence to Fort Cumberland, This matter being rep-
resented to Colo. Stanwix by the Commanding Officer at Fort
Frederick, the Colonel wrote to him in Answer, " It is my
express Orders that Mr Ross do at all times convey & supply
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