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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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496 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV proclaimed in this City the 27th of that Month & that Orders
were issued the next Day for making the like proclamation in
the several Counties of this Province, I shall now proceed to
inform you that having in pursuance of His Ldp's Instructions
& at the instance of Genl Amherst met the Assembly of this
province the 13th Inst I opened the Session with the inclosed
Speech & as soon as the two Houses had presented their
respective Addresses in Answer thereto I sent each of them a
Message intimating to them that as I thought it would become
us to take such a Step I should be glad to join with them in
an Address to His Majesty to express our Grief for the Loss
of our late most gracious Sovereign & of our happiness in the
prospect we have of enjoying under His Majesty's auspicious
Reign the invaluable Blessings which we & our Fellow Sub-
jects experienced during the Administration of his illustrious
p. 168 Grandfather. In Consequence of this Message a Committee
of both Houses is appointed to draw up such an Address
which (if they can agree on one tho that is doubtful as the
Lower House talk of inserting a Clause about Aggrievances)
I hope will be presented to me in a Day or two for my Appro-
bation & His Ldp might depend that I shall immediately send
the same to N York to be transmitted by the first packett or
Man of War that may sail thence for Great Britain & I will
send a Duplicate by the Way of Virga or should the Lower
House decline joining with Us & the Council & I will never-
theless transmit an Address to be presented to His Majesty —
You will perceive by my Speech to the Assembly (which ought
to have met the 7th Inst but a sufficient number of Members
to make a Lower House did not come together till the 13th)
that I was required by Mr Pitt as well as by General Amherst
to sollicit them once more for Supplies that a Number of
Troops may be raised in this Province as well as in the neigh-
bouring Colonies for the Security & Defence of the Kings
Dominions & Conquests on this Continent, His Majesty
having been pleased to give Orders that a considerable Body
of his Regular Forces which have been employed in North
America for some years past should be now transported hence
to act offensively against the Enemy in some other Quarter.
The Secretary of State's Letter being a Circular One I under-
stand that the Legislatures of the several Provinces to the
Northward of Philadelphia have thereupon made Provision for
the Support during this Campaign of as many Men as were
required of them respectively, but I learn from Phila that the
Assembly of Pennsylvania have Resolved (by a Majority of
three Voices) that they will not raise any more Men nor
p. 169 support more than the 300 which they have already on foot
& which they sometime ago agreed to keep up to garrison


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