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274 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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sending from Fort Frederick the £510 that remains due of
the pay advanced the troops, your Exclly may draw Orders on
him; I doubt not, that your Excelly will remember that I am
considerably in advance for money, and have assignments of
their pay for my Security. So that if the payment of their
Arrears is to depend on the next Maryland Assembly, I can
have but little hopes of it; as the people have been so mad
as to return almost the same Members thorough the different
Counties, and even this Frontier County, have rechosen Mr
Dorsey, Crisup & Chaplin, tho their behaviour was so extra-
ordinary in the last assembly. As things are so circumstanced,
I hope your Excelly will draw as littl of the £510 out of my
Brothers hands as possible till its seen what turn the same
Men will take in this new Session, for I flatter myself that the
application I have given and the risque I have run to keep
these Troops together since the 8th of Octr 1757, will in
your Opinion entitule me to the preference of all other
Creditors. I foresee what a loser I must be, what I request is,
that it may be as little as the circumstances of the Service
will admit.
I designd to have waited on you at Fort Cumberland &
from thence to have gone to General Forbes, but my stay at
Philadelpa and my being on the Frontiers the most part of this
Summer, put it out of my power at present
I am Your Excellys
most obed. & most hume Servt
David Ross
To Governor Sharpe.
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[Forbes to Sharpe.]
Sir
T am this moment favourd with yours and am very much
obliged to you, for the Care you have taken of our good Fort
Cumberland, this will be deliverd you by Mr Clerk, whom I
had sent over on purpose to settle matters with regard to
provisions &c, So whatever you have wanted or may want he
will settle with you as you shall please to direct, as to the
Virginia complaint I thought it frivilous and triffling from the
begining, you can easily see I was obligd to take notice of
it, on purpose to please. I shall send of an Escort tomorrow
for the Waggons, but if the Escort of Collo Byrds Regt is not
yet come away, they may Stay and Come along with the
Waggons, or Escort them till they meet the Party I send off
tomorrow. As there will be some empty waggons, I shall
expect the Spare wheel Carriage that Major Halket wrote
about. As I understand you have some Garden Stuff such as
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