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[C. Kilby to Sharpe.]
Philadelphia June 19th 1758
Sir
On my arrival in this Place a few days since General Forbes
communicated to me the Calculation and advices he had
receiv'd, respecting the pay, Victualling and Contingent
Expences attending the Maryland Troops since the 8th of
October last, I am in hopes the obstinacy that has hitherto
actuated the assembly, will not be persisted in, and that they
will be brought into a more reasonable disposition, and that
ample Provision will yet be made for the whole or by far the
greatest part of this Expence, in the mean time tis a very
severe hardship, that the Engagements you were under a
necessity of entering into and engaging others in, for the
mens pay victualing & Contingent Expences should remain
an oppressive burthen upon the individuals engaged in it,
and expose the reputation of the publick not only to discredit
but reproach.
It is in this light Sir and in order to prevent that want of
Confidence in publick Engagements which delay in this
Extrordinary measure has a tendency to promote, that I am
induced to offer every thing that can be done on my part in
aid to what the General is heartily disposed to do on his, for
the Relief and accomodation of all that may be involved on
this occasion in engagements, in Consequence of the Earl of
Loudoun's Authority to you to retain these Troops in the Ser-
vice of the Publick and for this purpose I divide the accounts
(of which I had sight of the Estimate or Calculation) into
three parts, Vizt the Victualling of the Troops, the officers
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