[Secretary John Ridout to St. Clair.]
8 Iuly 1758 Fort Frederick
Sr
Your Letter of the 6th Inst being in Governor Sharpe's
Absence delivered to me I took the Liberty to open it & do
myself the honour to inform you that as soon as His Excel-
lency received your Letter of the 23d of Iune which did not
reach him before the 26th he sent an Officer with a Party of
Militia to the mouth of Conegochiegh to collect all the Canoes
that could be got down the River that they may be ready to
be loaded with the Stores which Capt Jocelyne was convoying
hither from Carlyle. the Stores arrived the next Day but the
Canoes could not be collected brought hither & loaded till the
Ist Inst. they were however sent off very early on the 2d a
Captain Lieut & Ensign with 26 men of the Maryland Troops
& Lieutt Ray with 24 men of Capt Jocelyne's Detachment
being ordered to convoy them as far up Potowmack as the
Canoe men can carry them. In the Governor's Letter of the
28th of Iune he told you that all the Maryland Troops wch were
on this Side Fort Cumberland were at that time employed in
building a Bridge, over Licking Creek, they finished it the
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