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Excellys &c at the same time I representing the
inconveniencies I should suffer, if you could not prevail with
the General to allow me to use the money.
This Sir is a State of this troublesome affair, I am only
sorry that I could not reduce it to narrower bounds, the
papers I have refered to I hope have evinced to your Excel-
lency the truth of great part of it, and for the remainder I can
freely appeal to the Gentlemen whom I have named. I shall
give a copy of this to Mr Howell, that he may have it in his
power to show that I have either exaggerated any circum-
stances that make against him or may have omitted any that
would make for him
I am Your Excelly most obedt & most humb Servt
David Ross
To Governor Sharpe.
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[Sharpe to Baltimore.]
Annapolis the 3d of Novr 1758
My Lord
The last Letter that I did Myself the honour to Address to
Your Ldp was dated at Fort Frederick the 27th of Augst at
which time I was at the Request of General Forbes endeav-
ouring to engage a Number of Voluntiers to garrison Fort
Cumberland for three Weeks or a month so that the General
might be at liberty to strengthen the Rear of his Army by
drawing all the Virginia Forces from that place. Upwards of
200 of the Militia of Frederick County having voluntarily
offered to accompany me & to serve under my Command at
Fort Cumberland for the time abovementioned, I marched
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with them from Fort Frederick the 8th of Septr the Day that
the General was to have left Fort Loudoun (which lies in
Pensilva 25 Miles North of Fort Frederick) imagining that the
Virginians had Orders to evacuate Fort Cumberland imme-
diately on my Arrival & concluding that they would be able
to reach Raes Town a Day or two after the General whose
Intention I apprehended it was at that time to proceed directly
to Fort Du Quesne. I am sorry however to inform your Ldp
that I was greatly disappointed in my Expectations. A few
Days after I arrived at Fort Cumberland I was indeed advised
of the Generals being got to Raes Town but I was at the
same time informed that he was in a very bad State of Health
exceedingly fatigued by His Journey from Fort Loudoun not-
withstanding he travelled in a Horse Litter & moreover that
it was not possible for him to proceed untill he should receive
a large Convoy of Provisions, the Magazines which had been
laid in at Raes Town & the Advanced Post on Loyalhanning
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