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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761

200 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

Fort Cumberland with all manner of Provisions, & I will rec-
ommend it to the Province to pay any Loss he may receive
either by its being, or his Waggons Horses &c taken by the
Enemy which I am sure Lord Loudoun upon my Recom-
mendation will be sure to let him who acts so well for the
Publick Service be any Sufferer & if M^r Ross requires any
orders general or particular either by warrant or other wise
under my hand he shall have it. In Consequence of the
abovementioned Letters from Col^o Stanwix the Maryland
Troops continued to garrison Fort Cumberland & Fort Fred-
erick as long as Col^o Stanwix remained on the Frontiers of Pen-
silvania, & whenever any of the Southern Tribes of Indians
have come to either of those places they have been victualled
by M^r Ross agreeable to Col^o Stanwix's Orders & have been
also supplied with Liquors & some other necessaries that
friend Indians had been usually supplied with when they
came to any of the Forts on the Frontiers of these Provinces
The Money which had been granted for the Support of the
Maryland Troops being entirely expended the Beginning of
last Oct^r I press't the Assembly to grant another Sum of
Money for that purpose & to impower their Agents to send
an immediate Supply of Provisions to Fort Cumberland as it
appeared by the Commissary's Return that the Garrison must
otherwise have been obliged to evacuate it within a few weeks
for want of Food. The Assembly were so far from comply-
ing with my Request that they forthwith made a Resolve that
they never would agree to support a Garrison at that Fort be
the Consequence what it would. After the Earl of Loudoun
was apprized of this he sent me a Letter to be communicated
to the Assembly in hopes it would divert them from the Reso-
lution they had taken, but when he was informed that it had
failed of having the desired Effect & that the Assembly were
determined to adhere to their Resolution he wrote to me
again & desired that (notwithstanding the Assembly would
not agree to support them) the Maryland Troops or at least
so many of them as were necessary to garrison Fort Cumber-
land might be kept up & His Lordship promised that if I
would find them Pay & Provisions he would repay me out of
the Contingencies of the Army in Case the Assembly should
not indemnify me at their next meeting. Upon receiving this
Letter of which I have already sent Your Excellency a Copy I
wrote to Capt Dagworthy & the Rest of our Officers & gave
them some Assurance of being paid so long as they should
remain with their respective Companies in the King's Service
notwithstanding the Assembly had broke up at that time
without making any Provision for them. As I was convinced
that if the Number of our Troops was once reduced the

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