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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 295

having first wrote to the General & obtained his Approbation ;
the 3d Day afterwards I returned to Fort Frederick & having
ordered out another Company to relieve the Militia which
had garrisoned that place I sett off & came to Annapolis the
19th of Octr in order to meet the Assembly which has been
sitting ever since the 23d of that Month I shall take the Lib-
erty to inclose Your Ldp a Copy of my Speech to them at the
Opening of the Session & the Addresses which the two
Houses were pleased to present in Answer thereto, the Gentn
of the Lower House have Resolved that they will reimburse
the General & pay off the Arrears that are due to the Mary-
land Troops out of the first Supplies that shall be granted, but 		Letter Bk. IV
as the present House consists for the most part of the Mem-
bers that composed the last I am much afraid I shall not have
the Satisfaction of giving my Assent to a Supply Bill this Ses-
sion nor indeed do I expect to have that pleasure untill the
Dispute which has so long subsisted in Pensilvania about the
Right of the People to tax the Proprietaries Quit Rents &
other Estate in what manner they please shall be happily
determined. In the Maryland Gazette of the of Octr Your
Ldp will see the most particular Account that has been yet
given Us of the Action that happened between a Detachment
of our Forces of which Major Grant had the Command & a
Detachment of French & Indians near Fort Du Quesne the
of Septr & Your Ldp will learn from the Gazette of Yester-
day's Date that the French have since attacked our Advanced
Post. As the General has not thought proper to take any
Notice of this Affair in a Letter which he sent me from Raes
Town the 22d of last Month I am afraid we have not much
Reason to triumph. Before I returned from the Frontiers I
was told that more than 3000 of our Troops were at that time
encamped at Loyalhanning & I have been since assured by
a Person who had been there that each Corps had surrounded
themselves with a very good Breast Work which inclines me
to think that it was not the main or principal Encampment at
Loyalhanning which the Enemy attempted to force but some
more advanced Post & the rather because it is said that Colo
Bird of the Pensilvania Forces who is but the seventh officer
on the Expedition had the Chief Command there. I am
informed by a Letter from Raes Town dated the 23d of last
Month that the Rear of the Army was then about to march
from that place which corresponds with the Generals Letter
of the 22d a Copy of which I shall take the Liberty to inclose
Your Ldp that you may see after what manner he himself
speaks of his present Situation & Prospect. I understand that
upon its being found impracticable to make a good Waggon
Road directly from the Loyalhanning to Fort Du Quesne as 		p. 7


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