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respondence with you in the future Course of his Majestys
Service, and to give you proofs with what an unfeigned
Esteem and regard. I am
S^r Your Honours Most Humble & Most Obedient Servant
W Shirley

P. S. Inclosed are the Proportions according to the Plan
Settled by the Commissioners at Albany; which tho not
perfectly Equal, are the only ones than can be made use of
untill more exact can be formed; which cant be done in time
for the Present purpose. All inequalitys must be Equitably
Adjusted, and afterwards Set right upon the first Oppor-
tunity of doing it
Your Honour must be Sensible that the Success of the
next years operations depends upon an early Campaigne
I must desire your Honour to prevail on your Assembly
to raise their Inclosed Proportion of 1000 men towards the
Expedition against Crown Point in the first place, before
you recomend to them to Raise their proportion towards the
Expedition against Du Quesne
Proportions of the 10,000 Men proposed to be rais'd for
the Crown Point Expedition according to the Plan Settled by
the Commissioners at Albany.

Maryland

1,000

Virginia

1,750

Pensilvania

1,500

New Jerseys

750

New York

1 ,000

Rhode Island

500

Conecticutt

1,250

New Hampshire

500

Massachusetts

1,750

10,000

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At a Council of War held by his Excellency William
Shirley Esq^r General and Commander in Chief of all his
Majestys Forces in North America at New York on Friday
the 12^th Day of December 1755 —

Present

His Excellency William Shirley Esq^r General &c.
His Excellency Sir Charles Hardy Kn^t Governor & Com-
mander in Chief of the Province of New York
The Honb^le Horatio Sharpe Lieu^t Governor & Commander
in Chief of the Province of Maryland