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390 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
p. 66
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of the Lower House that they will not pay much Regard to
Mr Pratts Opinion. They have I understand voted 1000 Men
& ordered a Bill to be prepared for Raising £50,000 by just
the same method that was proposed the last year which per-
haps will be offered to the Upper House about the latter End
of next Week. The Assembly of Pensilva were the 20th Inst.
preparing an Act for Raising & Supporting 2700 Men during
the ensuing Campaign, The Act is to be exactly the same as
was the One which Governor Denny passed last Spring, &
from what Governor Hamilton is said to have dropt in Com-
pany there is I suppose no Probability of its being refused.
The Northern Colonies are all Raising & will support the
Numbers which they respectively furnished last Year & the
Virginians have also agreed to support their Regiment one
more Campaign. I presume you will have learnt before this
reaches you that the Cherokees have played Governor Lytle-
ton & the Inhabitants of So Carolina an ugly Trick having
reduced the Fort wherein the Hostages which they had given
were detained & then fallen all at once on the Frontier Settle-
ments so that according to our last Advices they are now in a
much worse Condition than our Frontier People were while
the Enemy were Masters of the Ohio.
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to the Lords of Trade.]
Anns 28th March 1 760.
My Lds
I do myself the honour to inform Your Ldps that having on
the 26th of Feby received Your Ldps Letter dated the 13th of
Novr last I forthwith issued a Proclamation in Obedience to
His Majesty's Commands communicated to me by Your Ldps
Lettr & appointed the 17th of the present month to be observed
throughout this Province as a Day of Publick Thanksgiving
for the many signal Successes which it had pleased Almighty
God to give to His Majesty's Arms both by Sea & Land
during the Course of the last Year, which Day was accord-
ingly observed by myself & His Majesty's good Subjects the
Inhabitants of Maryland with such Solemnities as were suitable
to so great an Occasion. I am &c.
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Original.
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[Commissioners of Customs to Sharpe.]
Sir
Having by the enclosed letter to Mr Randolph acquainted
him that We have Pursuant to a Warrant from the Treasury
issued our Deputation to Mr John Ridout to be Surveyor of
the Customs at Pocomoke in Maryland in the room of Edmund
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