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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 245
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Expence of carrying Provisions from Fort Frederick to Fort
Cumberland. There is likewise a considerable Sum due to
him for victualling the several Parties of Indians that have
been at these Forts since the Beginning of April 1757 but
what the exact Sum is I do not as yet know, the 1 4th of Iune
I had the pleasure of seeing Colo Bouquet & Sr Iohn St Clair
at the mouth of Conegochiegh, & Sr Iohn at that time
advanced the Officers of the Maryland Troops (which were
then reduced to 4 Companies) the Sum of £1890 to put them
as he said in Motion, It was calculated that this Sum would
pay them for three months & the Captains gave Receits for
it as for so much advanced by Your Excellency towards
paying their respective Companies without mentioning
whether it was to pay off the Arrears that were then due to
them or to pay them for the three months then ensuing
Before Colo Bouquet & Sr Iohn left Conegocheigh they prom-
ised to represent Dr Ross's Case to Your Excellency in its
proper Light & to use their Interest with you to procure him
payment for the Provisions that he had supplied our Troops
with from the 8th of Ocf to that time. The Beginning of
Iuly I was favoured with Your Excellency's Letter of the 2Oth
of Iune & with Mr Kilby's bearing Date the 1 9th of that month ;
being determined to wait on your Excellency as soon as you
came to the Frontiers of Pensa & I had then great reason to
expect an Account every Day of Your Arrival, I declined
answering yr Letter & as I was not sure that I understood Mr
Kilby's meaning I declined drawing on Mr Howell for any
money whatever untill I should have talked with Your Excel-
lency concerning it & untill I should have also seen Dr
Ross who happened to be at that time down the Country
attending the Affairs of some Merchants in London for whom
he transacts a good Deal of Business. Soon after I waited on
you at Carlyle you were unhappily taken very ill & the Con-
tinuance of Your Distemper disqualified you in a great
measure for doing Business, You were pleased however to
attend when I read you part of Mr Kilby's Letter & to agree
as I understood you that I might draw an order on Mr Howell
in favour of Doctor Ross for £2976. 15 Currency which
according to the Estimate was the Sum due to him for Vict-
ualling the Maryland Troops from the 8th of Octr to the 8th of
April, & which Mr Kilby as I understood him engaged to pay
& I remember that Sr I Se Clair & I think Major Halkett put
the same Construction on that part of his Letter where he
says " to this I put my own Shoulders &c " Besides this sum
to Dr Ross for Victualling the Troops to the 8lh of April I
imagined that your Excellency's Intention was to advance our
Troops as much Current money as including what Sr Iohn St
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