32 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk.III

such Account & remit it to Your Excellency with every Receipt
and Voucher in my possession.

[Sharpe to St. Clair.]

To S^r John S^t Clair Ann^s 13^th March 1762
D^r S^r
General Amherst having lately informed me that the Lds
of the Treasury have transmitted to him a Report made to
them by the Earl of Loudoun Gen^l Abercrombie & General
Stanwix in favour of the Officers & Men who composed the
Maryland Troops & that their Ldps have also impowered him
to give orders for the Payment of such Sums as on the
Adjustment of their Accounts shall appear to be due to the
Troops & to the Person who victualled them from the time
our Assembly drop't them till Brig^r Forbes gave orders for
their being Victualled by the Kings Commissary. Col^o Dag-
worthy & D^r Ross are now proceeding to N Y with their
muster Rolls & other Vouchers in hopes that they shall at
length be entirely relieved from the Difficulties into which
they were brought in Consequence of. that Letter whereby
Lord Loudon engaged in case our Assembly should not to
pay them out of the Military Chest. If you can by any means
serve them or contribute to the expediting their Business I
Hatter myselt you will not want Inclination to do them good
Offices. As I do not know when I may again have the
pleasure of seeing you for by what I can learn you are taking
deep Root in your Farm I have committed to the Care of Col^o
Dagworthy the manuscript you were some time ago pleased
to put into my hands. I did till about three weeks ago enter-
tain hopes that I should never more be laid under the neces-
sity of applying to the Assembly of this Province for either
Men or Money but I was it seems a little too sanguine in my
Wishes, the Earl of Egremont & the Commander in Chief of
His Majesty's Forces on this Continent have once more
demanded from us as large a Number of Men as can be raised
in this Govern^t so next Monday the Assembly & I are to begin
to play again the old Game. I am sorry to inform you that
unless M^r Coutts shall speedily pay into our Loan Office the
Ballance of about £140 which hath been long due from him
to the publick on account of Taxes collected by him when he
was Sheriff I shall be reduced to the necessity of ordering the
Attorney Gen^l to proceed against him with Rigour ; several
Letters have been wrote to him by the Clerk of the Loan
Office & M^r Ridout but he has not regarded them I wish
therefore you would be so kind as to give him such an Inti-