Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 105

P. S. Those Indians who attacked
us this day are part of
that Body which went to the
southward by this way in Spring which is known by one of the
Guns we now got from them.

On his Lordships Service
To his Excellence Horatio Sharpe Esq
in Annapolis.

[Sharpe to Amherst.]

To Sir Jeffery Amherst the 18^th of July 1763.
Sir
I return Your Excellency Thanks for the Letter by which
you were pleased the 20^th of last month to advise me of the
hostile proceedings of the Indians in the Upper Country & to
caution me to provide for the protection of the Frontiers of
this Province. Apprehending from some Reports which I had
before heard that some of the Ohio Indians might be con-
cerned in the plot I forthwith sent particular Instructions to
the Commanding Officer of the Militia in our Frontier County
thereby putting him on his Guard & ordering him to have
some Parties ready to act for the Defence & protection of the
Inhabitants in case the Suspicions entertained of the Indians
evil Intentions should prove well founded. I have since sent
him both Arms & Ammunition & such other Instructions as
the Behaviour of the Indians & the Condition of our Frontier
Inhabitants seemed to make necessary & in pursuance of my
orders some Parties of Militia have marched & are disposed
of & posted on our Frontier for the Protection of the Settle-
ments, the Gentlemen of our Council being of opinion with
me that this measure was the best & readiest way of Covering
or protecting them.
I am glad to find by Your Excellency's Letter that altho the
Indians had actually invested both Fort Pitt & Detroit you did
not seem to be under great pain about those Posts, but enter-
tained hopes that the Force you had collected and ordered
thither would arrive in time to check the Depredations of those
perfidious Barbarians. I am &c.

Letter Bk. III

[Calvert to Sharpe.]

London July 20^th 1763
Sir,
Yesterday I was at change & learning from M^r Philpot that
he had a ship at this day for Patowmack River to depart,

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