[Sharpe to Pitt.] Annapolis the 28^th Sept^r 1759.
Sir
In the Letter which I had the honour of addressing to you
the 18^th of April I informed you that upon the Receit of Your
Lett^r dated the 29^th of Dec^r last wherein you were pleased to
tell me that as soon as the Agents for the respective Prov-
inces should produce the necessary Documents the same
would without delay be recommended to Parliament, I had
taken the Liberty to communicate that part of Your Letter to
the Officer who had commanded the Maryland Troops & to
the Person who had victualled them after the Assembly had
declined to provide for their Support. The Virg^a & Mary-
land Fleet being now about to sail for Europe those Gentⁿ
have drawn up & put into my hands a memorial or State of
their Case which they have taken the Liberty to address to
you & have desired me to transmit, in hopes you will be
thereby inclined to commiserate their Condition & to Use
Your Endeavours to procure them a Compensation for their
Services. In compliance therefore with their Request I pre-
sume to send you the inclosed & have also transmitted to Cecilius Calvert Esq^r the Ld Baltimore's Secretary some
Muster Rolls & Accounts w^ch the abovementioned Gentⁿ pro-
duce to shew how the Money specified in their memorials
have arisen & become due, that in Case you shall be pleased
at any time to call for such Documents they may be ready to
be delivered to Your Order. It is with pleasure I inform you
that since the French thought fit upon the Reduction of
Niagara to abandon the small Forts on the Head Branches of
the Ohio which they had till that time kept possession of His
Majesty's Troops under the Command of Brig^r Stanwix have
not been at all annoyed or interrupted in their Operations,
nor have any of the Indians since that time committed any
Act of Hostility on the Frontiers of these Provinces; I am
likewise informed that since the Road by which General Brad-
dock was proceeding towards Fort Du Quesne hath been
repaired & compleated this Summer, such Quantities of Pro-
visions & other Necessaries have been carried to the Troops
from Virg^a that they are now extreemly well supplied with
every thing I am —

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

28^th Sept^r 1759.
My Lord
In the Letter which I did myself the honour to address to