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there was not the least Probability of their Doing any Business
I have by Advice of the Council just now prorogued the
Assembly to the middle of Iuly, when unless Something very
extraordinary happens I shall farther prorogue them till next
Winter. I presume you have heard before now that another
Attempt is to be made this Summer on Ticonderoga by 10
Battalions of Regular Troops & about 10000 Provincials from
the Northern Colonies whom General Amherst will command,
Three of the Regiments now on this Continent besides them
that were left in Nova Scotia & Cape Breton are it is said to
embark & join General Wolfe, while Brigadier Stanwix with
the first Battalion of the Royal American Regiment, 1500
men which the Virginians have agreed to furnish & the Pro-
vincials which the Pensilvanians shall keep up (for as yet it is a
Doubt whether their Bill will be assented to) keeps Possession
of the Ohio Country & compels the French to abandon all
their little Forts at the Head of that River, & thereby make
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the Western Indians more dependant than they have lately
been on these Colonies for Necessaries. Ever since the
Reduction of Fort Du Quesne our Frontier People have been
very quiet & I flatter myself that if this Campaign proves a
successful one all the People that had abandoned their Hab-
itations in Frederick County will again return home. By one
Capt Brooke that is about to sail from Dorchester County for
London You'll receive a particular Answer to Your Letter &
a more circumstantial Account of every Thing that has passed
since I last wrote, to my Letters by him I therefore beg Leave
to refer you & am with my Duty to His Ldp. Dr Sr &
[Sharpe to Calvert]
18th April 1759. transmd by Capt. Brooke
Sr
A Person who is just come over from Colo Lloyds tells me
that Capt Brooke whom I mentioned to you in the Letter I
sent yesterday by the Packett has already loaded his Ship &
will certainly sail next Sunday morning for which I am sorry
because it really puts it out of my Power to give so full an
Answer to some Parts of your Letter dated the 27th of Novr
as I intended & particularly to that part of it where you men-
tion Colo Lloyds having complained of the Remissness of
Messrs Rezin & Hedges late Farmers of Kent & Cecil
Counties & agst Mr Milligan the present Sheriff & Farmer of
Cecil not only for Remissness but also for insulting the
Agent because he pressed him to do his Duty. At present
I shall only say that if Messrs Hedges & Rezin (the last of
whom was appointed in Consequence of Colo Lloyds Appli-
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