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Letter Bk. III
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sion as I have had to be pleased with their past Conduct.
Since the opening of the Session I have received a Letter
from the General wherein he is pleased to tell me it is in his
Opinion necessary & reasonable that this Province should
support 500 Men during the Approaching Winter to assist the
other Provincials in garrisoning the Advanced Post at Loyal-
hanning (in Case he should be unable to reduce Fort Du
Quesne) & the several Forts that have been built on the
Frontiers, that the Regulars or at least some of them may
come down the Country to recruit & to equip themselves
more conveniently for an early Campaign next Spring, he is
still I find in an ill State of Health but he tells me that he was
determined to march from Raes Town with the Rear of the
Army the 23d of Octr By other Letters which have been
received from Raes Town we are informed that on the 12th of
that month a Body of about 1200 French & Indians attacked
our Advanced Post three several times but were as often
repulsed, it was at first said that they had lost four or five
hundred men but from the General's not mentioning the Affair
when he wrote to me the 22d ult. I am inclined to think that
our Troops had not much Reason to triumph notwithstanding
they are said to have been more than 3000 in number & to
have a very good Breast Work quite round their Camp,
our Loss was two Officers & 12 men killed, two Officers &
18 men wounded & 31 men missing. I wish it may be in my
power to send you more certain & better Intelligence by the
next Opportunity but I cannot say my hopes are at present
extreemly sanguine —
[Sharpe to Forrest & Maxwell, Merchants in Edinburgh.]
Anns 4th Novr 1758
Gentn
Inclosed are two Bills of Exchange for Seventy five Pounds
three Shillings & a Penny Stg which is the Sum that I am
indebted for the two Hhds of Claret that you were pleased to
send me last Spring by Capt Moody as appears by the Ac-
count annexed to your Letter dated the 15th of April, the
Receit whereof I embrace this Opportunity to acknowledge.
Having spent the Summer at a considerable Distance from
home I have not had occasion as yet to use much of the wine
but I shall not complain if none of it proves worse than what
I have tasted. I am &c. Horo Sharpe —
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