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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 251

since upon the Faith of General Stanwix's Warrant. In March ]
last when the Earl of Loudoun received orders to leave
America I submitted a State of the whole Affair to General
Abercromby & beg'd him to let me know whether he could
undertake to fulfill the Earl of Loudoun's Engagement & in
Case he could not I intreated him to order some other Troops
to Fort Cumberland lest ours should abandon it which I begun
to be much afraid of as I found that one of the Members of
our Assembly had been amongst the Men & taken some pains
to make them believe that they would never be paid for doing
Duty there & moreover that they could not be thereafter pun-
ished for Deserting. I had never the pleasure to receive an
Answer from His Excellency General Abercromby but Brig-
adier Forbes wrote to me soon afterwards & desired me to
keep the Maryland Troops at Fort Cumberland at all Events
giving me Room at the same time to think that General Aber-
cromby would impower him to fulfil the Earl of Loudoun's
Engagement in Case the Assembly should still adhere to their
former Resolution or decline to perform w£ was required of
them by your Letter of the 3Oth of Decr & which they had then
under Consideration. The Assembly having broke up in
May last without granting any Supplies I wrote once more to
General Forbes in behalf of our Troops & the Person that had
victualled them & I afterwards waited on him but by what I
can find General Abercromby being of opinion that the Prov-
ince of Maryland ought to pay their own Troops declines
to concern himself at all with them; the Person that has
victualled them is in the mean time driven to the greatest
Streights by having advanced about£4OOO st8 (which is more
than his whole Fortune) upon the Credit of the Earl of Lou-
doun's Letter to me & in pursuance of General Stanwix's
Warrant to himself & unless something should be done for
our Officers by a new Assembly which is to meet the Begin-
ning of Octr I am persuaded that many of them will be thrown
in Prison for the Debts they have contracted on their Mens
Account as soon as the Campaign is over & they return to
the Province. Beside the Maryland Troops as we call them
which consist of 320 Men I have prevailed on a Company of
40 Voluntiers all good Marksmen & used to the Woods to
join the Army they are commanded by a Gentleman that has
served upwards of two years as a Lieutenl in our provincials,
I understand that these left the Fort at Laurel hannon the
22d Inst & went towards the Ohio in order to make Discov-
eries, a Delaware Indian that is well acquainted with the
Country & that has lately attached himself to the English
bciii^ their Guide. I am Informed thcil all the Chciokccs & other Southern Indians which were with our Forces except 		.etterBk.111


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