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Greatest blame on their Conduct, should they in any point fail to
Assist to the Utmost the Kings Officers who shall be employed on this
Occasion; I have therefore the Kings Commands to Signify to you
his Pleasure that you should Use your utmost endeavours with your
Council and Assembly to induce them to Exert every means in their
Power for Collecting and forwarding the Matterials of all Sorts and
the Workmen which shall be wanted and which the Commander in
Chief in North America or Brig.r Gen Forbes shall require for this
Service, and that your Province do also furnish every other As
sistance of men Cattle Carriages &c.a &c.a that Shall be necessary
for the Support and Maintainance of the Kings Forces that Shall be
employed in this essential Work, as well as in all Farther operations
to be undertaken in those parts the ensuing Campaign
I am Sir your most Obedient
Humble Serv.t
W. Pitt
New York 28 March 1759.
Sir
With my Dispatches from M.r Secretary Pitt this Moment Re-
ceived by the Hallifax Packet Came the enclosed for you, by which
you will see, that the King has been pleased to direct me, and Brig.r
Gen. Forbes to lose no time in concerning the Properest and Speediest
Means for Compleatly Restoring, if possible the Ruened Fort
Duquesne to a Defensible and respectable State or for erecting an-
other in the Room of it of Sufficient Strength and every way
adequate to the Great importance of the Several Objects in the
undisputed possession of the Ohio; of effectually calling off all
Trade and Communication this way between Canaday and the West-
ern and Southern Indians of protecting the British Colonies from
the Incursions to which they have been exposed since the French
Built the above Fort and thereby made themselves Masters of the
Navigation of the Ohio, and of fixing again the Several Indian
Nations in their Alliance with and Dependance upon his Majestys
Government, for all which wise and good purposes, it is his Majestys
pleasure, that you should use your utmost endeavours with your
Council and Assembly to Induce them to Exert every means in the
power for Collecting and forwarding the Materials of all sorts
and the Workmen which shall be wanted and which the Commander
in Chief in North America or Brig Gen Forbes shall require for
this Service and that your Province do also furnish every other
Assistance of Men Cattle, Carriages provisions &c.a &c.a that shall
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Liber No. 35
April 9
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