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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761

250 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

ments. In the Letter which I addressed to you the 1 8^th of
May I intimated that General Forbes being desirous to have
the Maryland Troops kept together untill the End of the
Campaign was inclined to advance them a Sum of Money on
the Credit of the Province in hopes that the Assembly would
at their next Meeting agree to pay it & would moreover raise
a Sum of Money to satisfy all the Claims that both the Officers
& Men may have on the Province at that time; Agreeable to
this Scheme he has now advanced near Ł2000 Currency or
Ł1250 St^g which notwithstanding it is not a third part of what
is justly due (they not having received any Pay from the
Province since the 8^th Day of Ocf last) yet it has enabled &
encouraged them to proceed & to continue with the Rest of
the Troops to the End of the Campaign, & as they have all
been in the Service a considerable time & are inured to Hard-
ships & Fatigue I flatter myself they will answer the General's
Expectations. I have said that by the money which General
Forbes had advanced the Maryland Troops they will be
encouraged to keep together till the End of the Campaign
but I should have observed that the Officers had before at
sundry times advanced the Men of their respective Compa-
nies all the money that they were Masters of & had likewise
contracted pretty large Debts in order to supply their Men
with common Necessaries. In a Letter which I took the
Liberty to write the 22^o of Oct^r I told you that our Assembly
had Resolved that they would not thereafter provide for the
Support of any men that should be placed as a Garrison in
Fort Cumberland. Upon their coming to this Resolution I
wrote to the Earl of Loudoun & to Brigadier Stanwix advising
them thereof & desiring them to order some other Troops to
take Possession of that Fort. The Winter being pretty far
advanced before my Letter reached His Ldp who happened
to be in the most distant part of N. York, & the Regular
Forces being so disposed of in their Winter Quarters as made,
it very difficult & inconvenient for any of them to March to
Fort Cumberland at that Season His Ldp desired me to keep
ours there untill the Spring if it was by any means possible &
that no Encouragement might be wanting His Ldp permitted
me to promise them that it the Assembly should refuse to
pay them at their next meeting he would, & Colo Stanwix
with the Earl of Loudoun's Approbation gave the Person that
had been employed by the Assembly to supply our Troops
with provisions till that time a Warrant or Order to continue
to victual them as long as they should be kept at that post.
Relying on the Earl of Loudoun's Engagement the Officers
scrupled not to advance Money for their Men as long as they
had any themselves & they have been victualled almost ever

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