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Horse litter, being so weakened by my distemper that I
neither can ride nor bear the roughness of my slopwaggon
However I hope a few days will make a great change.
I have wrote to Colo Bouquet of your kind agreement of
Garrisoning Fort Cumberland for the first month of my
absence, and that 250 of your men would be there by the 10th
or 12th Instant, ordering the Commissary to furnish them
with provisions and a Gill of spirits each p day during their
stay in that service, If there be any thing more wanted let
me know, or if when there, you find any other thing necessary
you will be so good as to order it, as the Commissary shall
have directions to do whatever you require. Pray let me
know if you have heard of the Blanketts.
I give you joy of Louisbourg which is certainly a great
Acquisition and may be of some service to me, for as I dont
hear that they have reinforced Fort Du Quesne with any
Regulars, I fancy their chief reliance may be upon the Western
Indians from Detroit, who as Mr Croghan writes me will cer-
tainly leave them soon; this with the numbers of Delaware
nations and other tribes going now to treat with us at East
town prevents my hurrying measures for some days, least by
a precipitate blow I might prevent the success of the treaty at
East town; and the only thing I dread the French will do, is
they will persuade the West country Indians in Conjunction
with the shawenese to come and attack the head of my Army
now taking post on the other side Laurell hill, before that the
Indians return home, what are your sentiments thereupon ?
wether to proceed with the whole, or temporize a few days
longer, untill that we see how the East town treaty turns out,
where I wish heartily you could have been, as you must know
any Indian friendship at this critical time might prove a great
dimunition to the strength of the French.
I foresee I shall be in great distress for want of waggons,
the Horses of those with me being ruined as they say for
want of forage, a neglect that Sir John St Clair can never
answer for, who was sent from Philadelphia by me to make
magazines of Forage all along the march route and to have a
great Quantity in store at Raestown, I am Dr Sir
Yr most obedt &
most humle Servt
Jo: fforbes.
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to Forbes.]
F F the 4th Sep( 1758.
Sr
This will be presented by Mr Gary the Person that I engaged
to go down the Country & get the Blanketts that Your Excel-
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