make him easy. I think the General will leave Philadelphia
on monday next. I hope the Canteens & Kettles for Col^o
Byrds Regim^t have been sent from Conogogee. I have
received the Arms from it and they have sent me back the
Hatchets by mistake Old Cresop looking upon them as Arms.
For Gods sake send me as many waggons as you can from
your Government to this Place, they shall be all taken into
the Governments Service.
I shall order the Commissary who goes to Alexandria to
call upon you that you may give him all the Assistance pos-
sible in procuring him Waggons for the transport of Provi-
sions from Alexandria.
I am Dear Governor
Your most Obed^t &
most humble Servant
John S^t Clair.

[St. Clair to Sharpe.]

Carlisle the 23^d June 1758
Dear Governor
This will be delivered you by the Commissary who is going
down to Alexandria to bring up the two hundred of the North
Carolina Provincials, and about Eighty barrels of beef that is
in Store there. I must therefore intreat of you to give him
all the Assistance in your power for procuring him Carriages.
I have this day sent Captain Iocelyn of the Royal American
Regiment with 60 men to Fort Fredrick. I beg M^r Ross
may provide them with Provisions, they escort a Convoy of
upwards of thirty Waggons loaded with Shott & Shells which
I should be glad to send up to Fort Cumberland so that I
must intreat of you to appoint some one or other to take
charge of the Amunition and get forwarded with Battoes &
Canoes to fort Cumberland for this Service and purchasing
more Indian Corn & Oats I have sent you two hundred
Pound & one hundred Pound of Virginea Currency for paying
for Forrage that Colonel Procter may be able to collect at
Shanado. The reason of my sending this Convoy at present
to Fort Fredrick is, that Col^o Bouquet has got about two
hundred Waggons with him and if these had gone that way
they wou'd have shut up the narrow Roads of the Mountains.
I am
Dear Governor
I have the pleasure to send you Letters Your most Obed^t &
from Gen^l Forbes & M^r Kilby relating most humble Serv^t
to your Maryland Troops. John S^£ Clair

To Governor Sharp.