Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 43

the lower Counties continued out some Days which must
have occasioned a very considerable Expence to that Gov^t
The Day after ours were dismissed I returned again to Anna-
polis & I have the pleasure to inform you that our Forward-
ness to march on this Alarm had so good an Effect on the
Frontier Inhabitants that none of them left their Settlements
on this occasion. I do not doubt but the Party of the Enemy
that is come out will divide themselves & do mischief on the
Frontiers of these provinces before they return to Fort Du
Quesne indeed some Mischief has been already done by them
in Pens^a but as we have at this time upwards of 200 men at
Fort Frederick I am in hopes that our People will be no great
Sufferers. I have just hinted above that Capt Coolidge is
arrived, the Ammunition that His Ldp was pleased to order
by him & Capt Johnson has been all received.

[Col. Stanwix to Sharpe.]

Camp near Carlisle, Iuly 4^th 1757
Sir
I Did Imagine that on receipt of an Acco^t of our First
Alarms being Contradicted that you would send home Your
Militia; and am at the same time glad to hear that You can
Depend upon 500 men, when any real occasion requires it, as
You Apprehend it [is] for His Majesty's Service that an officer
& Detachment from the two new Companies be sent to Rein-
force Fort Cumberland, You'll be pleased to order it to be
done in such proportion as You who must be the best Iudge
think necessary. As to Your Assembly's not allowing their
Provincial Troops being under my Command, if they knew how
indifferent I was about that, they would make themselves very
Easy; but I shall Continue to give my orders whenever it
appears to me to be necessary and let the Disobedient answer
for Consequences, and if at any time I Ioin theirs, or any other
Provincial Troops have no Doubt about their obedience, as
the military Act & Articles of War has adjusted these matters;
as to provision left at Fort Cumberland I believe it from
Reports being made to me that it is bad & unserviceable;
therefore have given M^r Ross by Capt Beal orders to Supply
them with such fresh Provisions as may preserve the healths
of men Employed so necessarily in His Majesty's Service.
On my arrival here, I ordered on Complaint, an Inspection to
be made of the Provincial Provisions being very bad, and not
fit for human Creatures to be fed with in this pentifull
Country, where I find every body is to be wholsomely fed,
except those who are employed to protect others in Luxury &
Wantonness; My Surgeon was one of the Inspectors, &