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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 279
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lay before you, you should not think me quite so Culpable as
I have been represented, that you will at a proper Opportu-
nity lay this letter before the General and Intercede with him,
that I may have Copies of the whole that Mr Howell has wrote
relating to it, and that I may be permitted to wait on the
General when he returns to Philadelphia where the persons to
whom I shall appeal reside.
You know Sir, that all my Vouchers were prepared for the
Examination of Col. Bouquet and Sir John St Clair at thieir
meeting at Connegchego in June, and that I brought these
Vouchers to Carlyle when you waited on General Forbes in
Iuly, and that I waited on you at Generals lodgings with the
Copy of Mr Kilby letter of the 19 of June which your Secre-
tary had favoured me with, to know if I was right in my con-
structions of that letter and what was necessary for me to do
on my part; and I remember you requested Major Halket to
read it, and without your coming to any determination you
went together to the General. I think I afterwards under-
stood from your Excellency that no Vouchers would be called
for, but that the General would advance the money on account
and on the Credit of the province I returned with you :o Fort
Frederick and you gave me the three Orders on Mr Howell.
I believe you Imagined I would employ some body in Phila-
delphia to Negotiate them, but as the people were very press-
ing to whom I was Indebted for provisions, I proposed going
myself and in my way Called at Carlyle and got to Philadel-
phia the 6 of August next morning I waited on Mr Howell
with the Orders, he compared them with a Copy of Mr Kilbys
letter of the 19 of June and he objected to the draught for
85o£ towards defraying the expence of Transporting provi-
sions to Fort Cumberland and other contingincies as Mr Kilby
in his letter mentioned only five or £600 on that account and
said he would copy all the Orders and send them that day by
the post to Mr Kilby at N. York, and that I must wait the
return of the post, which I thought very reasonable he also
made an Objection to your having drawn the Order for Pro-
visions in Curry as he had wrote to Mr Woolstenholme at
Annapolis, desiring him to request of your Excellency that it
might be drawn in Sterling, but you will see how that diffi-
culty was got over by the Copy of mine to him marked N 1
On the Saturday Mr Howell had no letter by the post from
Mr Kilby, on the Monday following Mr Howell of himself
proposed to pay me the Orders, and next day he did: and
I gave him recipts on them, as you will observe on the Origi-
nal ones now in my possession N. 2. 3 and 4. I asked Mr
Howell if he had any business to communicate to Mr Kilby,
for that I intended to go to N York; as I was well assured
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