say on no account be employed otherwise than in garrisoning
Fort Frederick & ranging just beyond the Frontier Settle-
ments. This being their final Resolution I must leave it
entirely to you to take such Measures for the Preservation of
Fort Cumberland as you shall think proper. The Garrison
will not I apprehend be easily kept together long after the
Men hear that they are to receive no more pay & indeed if
they are not by Your order speedily supplied with a quantity
of Provisions they will all find themselves under the Necessity
of abandoning the Place for want of Food. I have writ to the
Earl of Loudoun acquainting him with the Assembly's Con-
duct on this Occasion but as I hear that His Ldp is at Albany
it will be some time before my Letter can reach Him. The
Gentleman that presents this is a Lieutt in one of our Com-
panies. As he has Business to transact at this Place before
he goes to Fort Frederick he will return again hither as soon
as you shall have leisure to acknowledge the Receit of my
Letter —
[Sharpe to Board of Trade.]
22d of Octr 1757.
Rt Honble
In obedience to Your Lordship's Commands signified to me
in Your Letter dated the 9th of Iune I have writ to the Masters
or Clerks of all the Iron Works in this Province for such a
particular account as your Ldps are pleased to require of the
Quantity of Pig & Bar Iron that was made at their several
Furnaces & Forges from the 25th of December 1749, to the
5th of Ianuary 1756 which Account shall be transmited to
Your Ldps by the first Opportunity of Conveyance that offers
after the Gentn have complied with my Request & In the
mean time I send Your Ldps an Accot of the Quantity of Iron
that appears by the Naval Officers Books to have been
exported from this Province within the time abovementioned.
[Sharpe to Pitt.]
22d of Octr 1757.
Sir
In the Letter which I addressed to you the 26th of May I
informed you that the Assembly of this Province had in Com-
pliance with the Earl of Loudoun's Requisition agreed to sup-
port 500 Men for the immediate Defence of the Province &
to act on any Emergency in Conjunction with such other
Forces as should be employed in these parts to annoy His
Majesty's Enemies. Some of these Men were by His Ldp's
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