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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 313

be fetched over & introduced to the General which they were
the next Day on the 27th they were dismissed with an Answer
to the Message they had brought from their respective Towns
& Mr Croghan the Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs with an
Interpreter was ordered to accompany them Colo Dag-
worthy does not know what passed between the General &
those Indians but he says it was expected that all the Indians
on the Ohio will immediately come in & sue for Peace.
In my Letter of the 8th Inst I told Your Ldp there was a
Report that the French had only retired to another Fort
which they had built about 20 miles lower down the Ohio but
I learn from Colo Dagworthy that there is no such Fort & that 		Letter Bk. IV
those of the Enemy that fell down the River were seen more
than 30 Miles below Fort Du Quesne by the four Indians
abovementioned. Your Ldp will perceive by the Orders
which the General gave out the 29th of Novemr that he has
sent a hundred of the Maryland Soldiers to Garrison Fort
Cumberland expecting I presume that our Assembly will at
least agree to support that Number, but if he has proceeded
on this Supposition I am much afraid he will be disappointed
& that Fort Cumberland will be soon evacuated, for the Gen-
tlemen of the Lower House are still determined to adhere to
their Assesment Bill, which I am told will be now offered to
the Upper House in two or three Days. The General having
thought fit to leave it to me to dispose of the Rest of the
Maryland Forces I have ordered them to repair to this Place
where they will be ready to be disbanded if no Supplies are
granted or to receive their Arrears of Pay & be cloathed if
the Assembly shall be prevailed on to raise Money at this time
for that purpose.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Annapolis the 14th of Decemr 1758 & transmitted by Capt
McTaggart.
Sr
Since I wrote to you the 10th Inst Lt Colo Dagworthy who
has had the Command of the Maryland Troops is come hither
from the Ohio & brings Us the agreeable Account that His
Majesty's Forces under the Command of General Forbes
took Possession of Fort Du Quesne the 25th of Novemr two
Days after Monsr Deligneris with his Garrison of 500 Men
had abandoned it. Before they went off they set fire to all
the Barracks in the Fort & Out Works & all the Houses that
had been built near it. They likewise demolished a Bastion
& Part of two Curtains of the Fort by blowing up their grand

p. 19
Magazine of Powder. An English Boy who had been some p. 20


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