92 Assembly Proceedings, April 8-May 9, 1757.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
Mays

On Motion, Resolved, That this House do not proceed on any
new Business of any Kind this Session after this Day.
On Motion, the Question was put, That the Governor's Accounts,
relating to his Expences on Two Journeys to the Northward, be
Referred to the Consideration of next Session of Assembly. Re-
solved in the Affirmative.
His Excellency the Governor communicates to Mr. Speaker the
following Message, viz.^t

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
Inclosed you have a Letter or Message, which has been sent to me
by some Cherokee Indians, who, upon an Invitation given them last
Year by Governor Dinwiddie, have declared in our Favour, and are
determined, if they meet with proper Encouragement, to act in Con-
junction with our Troops against the French and their savage Allies.
As you all know how useful Indians are to the Party whose Cause
they espouse, and how formidable to those against whom they wage
War, I shall not enlarge on the Services that these People may do us
at this Time, not doubting but you will agree with me on the Ex-
pediency of securing them in our Interest, and enable me to send
them an agreeable Answer, by accompanying it with a Present. I
presume you will think, that the least Thing we can do for them,
during their Stay on our Frontiers, is to have them supplied with
Victuals and such Necessaries as they may stand in Need of: And
as Mr. Ross has already delivered Provisions to Sixty-two of these
People, who are at Fort Frederick, in Confidence that such a Step
would meet with our Approbation, I hope you will provide for his
being paid for the same.
5^th May, 1757. Hor^o. Sharpe.

And the following Letters or Messages, viz.^t

To the Governor of Maryland,

Fort Frederick, April 29, 1757.
Brother of Maryland,
This Day came into your Province, with a Company of our Nation,
on our Way to War against the French Shawanese, and all their
Indians, hearing they had kill'd some of our Brothers, not knowing
when we set off from Winchester but the Murder was committed
in Virginia; but coming to this Fort, found we were in another
Province; and on being informed by Capt. Beall, that our Brother,
the Governor of this Province, had a real Love for our Nation, and
that he had provided Cloaths for our Nation, tho' unacquainted with
us, I have just now held a Council with my young Warriors, and has
concluded to write to you, to acquaint you, our Brother, our Design
of coming into this Country was hearing from our good Brother,