Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 229

Fort Loudoun June 16.. 1757..
Sir
This moment the inclosed Letters came to my Hands, I
have not, lost a Moments time in transmitting them to you

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

as I look upon the Intelligence to be of the greatest Im-
portance if the Enemy is coming down in such Numbers, and
with such a Train of Artillery as we are bid to expect Fort
Cumberland must inevitably fall into their Hands as no
Efforts can be timely made to save it.
I send you Sir a Copy of a Council of War held at this
Place, and I intend to pursue the Resolutions therein con-
tained 'till I receive Orders how to act it is morally certain
that the next Object which the French have in View is Fort
Loudoun and that is yet in very untenable Posture they have
no Roads for Carriages into any other Province but through
this Place, and there lies here a Quantity of Stores belonging
to his Majesty and this Colony very much exposed and
unguarded.
I shall not take up your Time Sir with sending a tedious
Detail of the Fort, I have dispatched one Express to Gov-
ernor Dinwiddie, and another to Colonel
I am
Your Excellency's most obed^t humble Servant
Geo: Washington

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Monday
the 27.. Day of June in the seventh year of his Lordships'
Dominion Annoq Dom.. 1757..

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

Ordered that the following Letter be sent to the several
Officers of the Customs within this province

Sir
Having received Advice that the Embargo was to be this
Day taken off in the port of Philadelphia, I hereby signify
to you that it is taken off in all the ports of this Province also,
you are therefore no longer to pay any Regard to the Order
contained in my Letter of the ninth of March nor refuse to
clear out any Vessel whatever on Account of that Letter.
I am
Annapolis 27: June 1757. Sir
Your most humble Servant
Hor^o Sharpe —

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