358 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

[Sharpe to Amherst.]

Annapolis the 5^th Sept. 1759.
S^r
I now do myself the honour to acknowledge the Receit of
your two Lett^rs dated the 8^th & 14^th of Aug^st as well as of that
dated the 27^th of Iuly wherein you were pleased to advise me
of the Enemy's having on Your Approach abandoned their
Post at Ticonderoga & of the Reduction of Niagara on which
important Events I most heartily congratulate Your Excellency
& beg leave to assure you that none can more sincerely wish
you the Continuance of the Success which hath hitherto
attended His Majesty's Forces under your Command than
Y^r Exc^s—

[Sharpe to Wm. Sharpe.] Annapolis the 24^th Sept^r 1759.
D^r B^r
Having upon my Receit of the Lett^r you were pleased to
favour me with the 31^st of March last intimated to the Officers
who lately commanded the Maryland Troops that the Earl of
Loudoun was making Application in their Behalf & that in my
opinion it would not be amiss for them to draw up a State of
their Case & of their Claims to be presented to the Secretary
of State for this Department I expected that they would have
put such a one into my hands before this time that it may be
transmitted by this Fleet, but as several of the Officers have
died since last Campaign & many of those who survive are
out of the Province it has been very difficult for their Agent
to collect their respective Accounts so as to be thereby
enabled to draw up a true State of the Affair & I begin to
question whether it will be perfected before the Convoy sails.
As you were so kind as to tell me that if I had any Accounts
of my own ag^st the Gov^t & would transmit them you would use
Your Endeavours to get them in a way for Payment I take the
Liberty to inclose you one amounting to more than £600 st^g
the greatest part of which Sum I have at times been under a
necessity of expending in order to comply with the Requisi-
tions of His Majesty's Generals.
It may perhaps be said that these are contingent Expences
to which the Station of every Gove^t in N. America at this time
renders him liable & that since at such meetings as we attended
at Phil^a & N York we represented as it were our respective
Provinces our Assemblies ought to reimburse Us; The Gover^s
of N York & Pens^a have I am told been reimbursed in that
manner but if my sole Dependance for a Reimbursement