Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 31

who have engaged to attend you, & as they have behaved
themselves on all occasions particularly in the Service which
involved them in the Difficulties they have long laboured
under but now hope to be relieved from in a manner becom-
ing Gentlemen of honour & Spirit I shall think myself much
obliged to Your Excellency for shewing them any favour &
hope if the Commissioners are satisfied with the Papers they
bring their Business will be finished with all convenient Dis-
patch. With respect to the Sum of £719 156 which in their
Report to the Lds of the Treasury the Earl of Loudon Gen^l
Abercrombie & Gen^l Stanwix reported to be due to myself I
know not what kind of Vouchers may be expected, I shall
therefore only take the Liberty to inform Your Excellency that
having been desired by Gen^l Shirley to meet him at N York
in Nov^r 1755 I was detained there so long as made it impos-
sible for me to return home within eight weeks ; that having
repaired to Phila³ in feb^y 1757 at the Instance of the Earl of
Loudon I was detained there upwards of five weeks & you
may remember Sir that I took the same Journey again in Feb^y
1759 at Your Excellency's Desire tho I had not the pleasure
you had by your Letter given me room to expect. Finding
our Frontier Inhabitants would otherwise abandon their Set-
tlements I continued during the months of June July & August
1756 at a considerable' Expence in that part of the province
which was most exposed to the Indian Incursions with a
Number of Voluntiers whom I had engaged to accompany
me & was prevailed on by Brig^r Forbes to perform again the
same Service during the greatest part of June July Aug^st Sept^r
& Oct^r 1758 in order that he might be at liberty to draw all
the Regulars & Provincials from Fort Cumberland & Fort
Frederick which places I at that time garrisoned with Volun-
tiers from our Militia. The extraordinary Expences I was put
to by the abovementioned Journies & Services together with
£73 2 6 which I paid for Letters & Expresses sent to or by
me on Account of His Majesty's Service between the years
1755 & 1759 amounted I am confident & I doubt not but
Your Excellency will think so to a much larger Sum than I
chose to mention to the Secretary of State to whom indeed I
never should have preferred any Claim had there been the
least probability of my being otherwise reimbursed. In case
Your Excellency or the Commissioners to whom this Affair
may be referred should be satisfied of the Justice & reason-
ableness of my Claim by the Report of the three Generals
thereon M^r Ross is impowered by me to receive & give a
Discharge for the money reported to be due to me, but if a
particular Account of every Sum I disbursed & for what it
was paid is required I will as far as may be in my power state

Letter Bk. III