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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 277

was not advised of Your Intention to have a Meeting at
Easton with a number of the Delawares & other Indians soon
enough to have attended there at the time you had appointed
& indeed if Your Letter had reached me before I left F.
Frederick I should not have been at Liberty to accept Your
Invitation for I had promised the General some time before to
garrison F. Cumberland for three or four weeks from the
middle of last month with some of our Militia & I was sen-
sible that none of them would be prevailed on to move unless
I would go with them & remain there as long as they should
continue in Garrison. As the General has been detained so
long at Raes Town I imagine the Success of his Expedition
depends greatly on the Issue of Your Conferences at Easton
& I am therefore very anxious to know how they have ended,
in the mean time it gives me some Satisfaction to find that
you were of opinion at the time you were pleased to write to
me that there was a fair Prospect of Your being able to settle
all Disputes & unite in our favour the several Tribes of
Indians that had promised to send Deputies thither to meet
you. From the Accounts that I received from Raes Town
just before I left Fort Cumberland I conclude that the General
moved on with the Rear of his Army from that place the Day
after the Waggons which Sr Iohn St Clair had been down the
Country to collect arrived & I expect that the Troops have
e'er this time marched on from the advanced Post at Loyal
Hanning but I presjime you have received Letters from the
Westward since I came from the Frontiers & shall therefore
only add that I am &c — 		Letter Bk. III
[Clark to Sharpe.]

Camp near Rays Town Octobr 23d 1758.

Sir
I received your Excellency's Letter, giving me Detail of the
Militia, by us fed at Fort Cumberland under yr Command, for
which I return you my most Hearty Thanks; I thereby made
out the Accs but will defer having it certifyed untill I have the
pleasure of Seeing you.
I shall be much obliged to your Excellency, if By any means,
the Acct of Mr Ramsay or any other Accts we left unsettled,
could be procured & sent to me at Carlisle, as I shall have to
settle with the General for them.
This Day we march from this place, leaving but about
100 Invalids under Major Wells to Garrison this place.
The particulars of the Attack at Loyal hannan is kept a
Secret, I am afraid it will not bear a true Relation; I beg

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