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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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 244 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
Letter Bk. III draw on him for an Additional Sum over & above what MrKilby
might have before impowered him to advance on Account of
the Provisions with which the Maryland Troops had been
supplied because I am inclined to think that if he had received
such Advice He would either not have accepted the orders
which I drew on him or that if he had accepted 'em he would
not have proceeded with such Rigour agst Dr Ross for
declining to return the Money till he had consulted Your
Excellency on the occasion. I could likewise wish that Mr
Howell had reflected how far his treating Mr Ross in that
manner might affect my Character as well as the Doctors &
how ready the People in these Provinces are to report &
believe every thing whereby the Reputation of those who
happen to reside among them in the Station of Governors
might possibly be injured, at the same time I cannot upon
considering the Consequences it produced commend Doctor
Ross's Refusal to part with the Money which he had received
on those Bills tho I doubt not but he gave Mr Howell many
Reasons for doing so which considering his hituation & Your
Excellency's very bad State of Health at that time would not
perhaps to many people have appeared frivolous as Your
Excellency knows in what manner & by what means the
Maryland Troops have been encouraged to keep themselves
together ever since the 8th of Octr last to this time & what
induced Doctor Ross to victual them so long I shall only take
the Liberty to remind Your Excellency of what has passed
between you & Myself relative to them since our Assembly
broke up in May last without making any provision for their
Support. At the same time that I had the pleasure to receive
your Letter of the 25th of May wherein you expressed a
Desire to have the Maryland Troops still kept up & marched
to Fort Cumberland but left it to Sr Iohn St Clair & me to
settle concerning them as should be thought best I received a
Letter from Sr Iohn wherein he told me that Your Excellency
was willing that He & I should settle about the Maryland
Troops but that he expected to receive an explicite Answer
from you concerning them, when I wrote to Sr Iohn the 3d of
Iune I thought it not amiss to give him some Account of the
Situation wherein the Maryland Troops & the Person that
had victualled them were left by the Assembly & of the
Sums that I imagined were due to them respectively, which I
did in these words " By the inclosed Sketch or general Account
you will see that there was due to our Troops the 8th of April
last a Trifle more than £4536 Currency or £2835 stg & that
the Agent Victualler's Account for supplying them with pro-
visions from the 8th of Octr last to that time amounts to
£2976. 15 Currency exclusive of a Hospital Account & the


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