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298 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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appear to have been the Case & indeed I am inclined to think
that if we had much to boast of the General would at least
have mentioned the Affair to me in the Letter which he wrote
from Raes Town the 22d of Octr We are told that instead of
making a straight Road from the Loyalhanning to Fort
Du Quesne which is now said to be impracticable some of the
Troops are employed in opening one from our Advanced Post
into the Road that was made by General Braddock which
demonstrates I think that the best Rout would have been by
the Way of Fort Frederick & Fort Cumberland & not by the
Way of Raes Town. You will perceive that whatever be the
Event of the Campaign the General talks of sending all his
Regular Troops down the Country for Winter Quarters that
they may be recruited & have the better Opportunity of
equipping themselves for the next Campaign, but in my
Opinion if he is not so fortunate as to reduce the French Fort
it will be hazardous to entrust the advanced Post at Loyal-
hanning to Provincials only, besides it is a Doubt with me
whether these Colonies will be persuaded to support a Body
of Troops for that Purpose. With regard to the Maryland
Forces which if one judges from their Behaviour this Summer
are some of the best Provincials in the Service it cannot I think
be expected that they will be content to remain there or indeed
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that they will keep together much longer, it being now almost
13 Months since they received any Pay, or fingered any Money
except the Sum of £1500 Stg wch the General was pleased to
advance the Officers on the Credit of the Province, One of
the Virginia Regiments will be of Course disbanded the
31st of Decr & two thirds of the Pensa Troops were enlisted
only for 6 or 8 months which Term I presume will very soon
expire & indeed We are told that a great many of the New
Levies that engaged for the Campaign are already come off.
I take this Opportunity of sending His Ldp another Box of
dried Rattle Snakes & of remitting you two Bills of Exchange
one drawn by Alexr Mcfarlane the other by Mr Thomas Phil-
pot & both together amounting to very near the Sum which I
am to pay You every half Year out of the Sallary of a Thou-
sand Pounds p Ann, that I receive as His Ldp's Governor.
I am
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to Wm. Sharpe.]
Annapolis the 3d of Novr 1758.
Dr Br
In my Letter Dated the 27th of Augst I intimated to you
that at the Desire of General Forbes I was then endeavouring
to engage about 200 Voluntiers to accompany me To Fort
Cumberland & to garrison that Place for three Weeks or a
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