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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 85

lately received from Governor Pownall he tells me that he
had some Conversation with you just before he left England
about me & N York & offers me his Service in Case I should
entertain any Thoughts of that Governt As I have heard
since I addressed my last Letter to you that the Governor of
that Province is dependant on the Assembly for his Sallary &
has no Allowance from home I returned him Thanks for his
kind Offer but intimated to him that by the Accounts I had
received I was induced to think that the Exchange would not
be much to my Advantage & indeed I am pretty well con-
vinced that that Governt is not so desirable as it has been
generally supposed nor so valuable as you have heard it rep-
resented. I have writ to Lord Baltimore pretty freely about
the prodigious Decrease of my Revenue since these Distur-
bances began in America in hopes that he will be induced to
lessen the sum that I am ordered to pay annually out of my
Sallary but as Mr Calvert's Interest & mine are in this par-
ticular directly contrary I am afraid my Representation will
have but little weight —

[Sharpe to Wm. Sharpe.]

18th Septr 1757.
Dr Br
All the News that We have received from the Northward
since I writ to you the 8th Inst is that Admiral Holborne with
the Fleet under his Command is returned to Hallifax the
French having notwithstanding their Superiority declined
coming out of the Harbour of Louisburg to give him Battle
& that Mr Dusseau Colo Commandant of the 2d Battalion of
the Royal American Regiment died a few Days since on his
March from N York to join Colo Stanwix who continues
encamped near Carlyle. As the Money that our Assembly
granted last Year for the Support of the Troops that have
been since raised for the Defence of this Province is almost
expended I am obliged to meet them again & sollicit farther
Supplies which I am very sorry for because I am persuaded
that they will follow the Example of the Pensilvanians in
insisting on all the Proprietary's personal & real Estate within
the Province being taxed as well as their own when I am by a
peremptory Instruction forbid to assent to any Bill of that
Sort that might be offered me. It grieves me to think that
we should find such Difficulty in obtaining a paultry Sum to
support a few hundred Men for the immediate & sole De-
fence of our own Frontier Inhabitants when we could afford to
support a thousand more for the General Service did the
Legislature of Great Britain think fit to compel us. there is

Letter Bk. III


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