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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 95

obliged to abandon that place for want of Food before I can
be favoured with His Ldp's Answer to my Letter I have
upon the Assembly's refusing to supply them given orders
for their being furnished upon my own Account with as much
provision as they shall stand in need of. We are told by a
Portuguese a Deserter from Fort Du Quesne that when he
left that place about two Months ago the Garrison did not
exceed four Hundred Men. Since that time a Party of French
& Indians have made an Incursion & carried off 15 Persons
from Virga & another Party was designed agst this Province
but being discovered a few Miles from Fort Cumberland &
having lost in a Skirmish that ensued a Cadet that had (as
appears by his Orders) the Command of them they retired
without doing the least Mischief. I had not the honour to
receive your Letter of the 19th of Feby till within these 6 weeks
when I received one likewise from Admiral Holburne wherein
he required me to furnish him with a Number of Seamen for
the Fleet that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to
order to America under His Command. As soon as the As-
sembly met I submitted the Admiral's Letter as well as yours
to their Consideration & pressed them to enable me to comply
with the Admiral's Demand. In answer to my Message they
were pleased to assure me that they were sorry it was not in
their Power to comply with my Request but that the Trade of
this Province must be entirely ruined if any more of our
Seamen should be taken away, & indeed so many of those
that have been usually employed in our Trade have left us to
serve on board His Majesty's Ships or Privateers that it is
not without the greatest difficulty the Masters of our Ves-
sels homeward bound can engage a few Seamen to navigate
them.
I am with the greatest Respect Sr 		Letter Bk. III
[Dinwiddie to Sharpe.]

Sir
Your favo of the 9th Iuly I recd & I sincerely thank you for
your kind Wishes for me; the Time of my Departure for
Britain is at present uncertain, as I have wrote Adml Hoi-
bourn for one of the King's Ships to accomodate me and
Family Home, which I have good Reason to expect as its
agreeable to the Orders from the Admiralty.
I am sincerely sorry Your Assembly are so refractory, surely
at this Time their own Preservation, & every Thing valueable
shou'd incite them with Alacrity to do all in their Power for
His Majesty's Service. I shall be glad to know their Resolu-
tions before I leave this.

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