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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761

320 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

on the Ohio & believe that none could rejoice more at Your
Excellencysor would be more pleased to hear of Your being per-
fectly recovered than myself. I presume Col^o Dagworthy who
came hither from Pittsburg while the Assembly was sitting
has waited on Your Excellency since you reached Phila^a &
informed you that they still adhere to their old Measures &
that altho they professed a Willingness to reimburse Your
Excellency & M^r Kilby what you have been pleased to advance
on the Credit of the Province as well as to pay off all the
Arrears that are due to our Troops yet that the Majority of
them will not raise any Supplies for these or any other pur-
poses otherwise than upon such Terms as cannot be accepted
by the other Members of the Legislature Capt Beall arriving
here a few Days after the Assembly had broke up with all the
Maryland Soldiers except the Hundred which had been
ordered to Fort Cumberland Col^o Dagworthy & he thought
it advisable in order to prevent their Deserting or Disbanding
themselves to give the men Furloughs & Leave of Absence
untill Money shall be granted to pay off the Arrears that are
due to them & till Notice shall be given them by an Adver-
tisement in the Gazette to repair to a Place of Rendezvous.
What Col^o Dagworthy has done with the Company that
marched to Fort Cumberland I dont know having received
no Advice from him about them since he left this place, but I
presume he has before this time acquainted Your Excellency
with his Proceedings & received your final Instructions con-
cerning them. I received a Letter a few Days ago from
General Amherst dated at N York the 13^th of Dec^r wherein
he desires that I will not disband our Troops but move the
Assembly to continue them in pay during the Winter but if
says he it should so happen that before the Receit of this Letter
those Troops shall be disbanded in that Case I must desire
that you will lose no time in using Your Influence with Your
Assembly to move them to order new Levies & to cause these
to be provided with the usual necessaries & to be ready by the
time the Season will admit their taking the Field. As I con-
clude from what you tell me in Your Letter of the 20^th Inst
which I have just received that you have seen General Am-
herst since you arrived at Phil^a or that you will in a very few
Days see His Excellency at that place, & as you can & I
doubt not will inform him more easily & fully at an Interview
than I could well do by a Letter on what Footing & by what
means the Maryland Troops have continued & been sup-
ported since the 8^th of Oct^r 1757. I have declined troubling
His Excellency with a particular Account of what has passed
from time to time between the Earl of Loudoun, Brigadier
Stanwix General Abercromby Your Excellency & Myself con-

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