To Gover^r Dinwiddie. the 10^th of Aug^st 1757.
Sir
I am now to acknowledge the Receit of Your Letter dated
the 28^th of Iuly as well as to return You Thanks for Your
Favour of the 5^th Inst, the Contents of which so far as they
concern our Trade I shall have communicated to our people
in the next Gazette, the Convoy that was sent to Fort Cum-
berland is returned without having seen an Enemy but soon
after they left Fort Frederick some Mischief was done on our
Frontiers which obliged me to order two small Detachments
from the Militia to patroll for some time beyond our Settle-
ments. The inclosed Gazette contains all the News that we
have lately received from the Northward. We hope that the
Fleet is long before this time sailed from Hallifax, where His
Ldp intends to have the Troops landed I know not but it is
generally thought that his Design is to attack Louisburg.
I observe that an Ensign of Yours who made his Escape a
few weeks since from Niagara says the French are actually
sending a considerable Number of men from Canada to Fort
Du Quesne & agrees with Street in declaring that they are
meditating an Expedition ag^st Fort Cumberland. By a Gentⁿ
who came from Carlyle the 6^th Inst I am told that the Royal
Americans desert daily especially the Germans who as there
is great Reason to beleive go off to Fort Du Quesne.
With the greatest Regard &c

Philadelphia 10 August 1757
Sir
I am obliged to you for your favour of the 14^th Iuly which
was forwarded by Express to me at Easton. Coll^o Stanwix
was likewise so good as to send me Streets Examination w^ch
agrees with the Account you give me of it. It has been a
great Doubt whether any Reinforcements ever come from the
Mississippi to Fort Dusquesne: this renders it certain Seven