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IX
LETTERS TO GOVERNOR SHARPE 1758-1761

[SEVEN LETTERS, DATED 1758-1761, FROM GENERAL
JOHN ST. CLAIR AND FROM GENERAL JEFFREY AMHERST
TO GOVERNOR HORATIO SHARPE IN REGARD TO MILITARY
AFFAIRS AND THE SUPPLY BlLL FOR HlS MAJESTY'S
SERVICE.]

Carlisle the 23.^d June 1758
Dear Governor
This will be delivered you by the Commissary who is going down
to Alexandria to bring up the two hundred of the North Carolina
Provincials, and about Eighty barrels of beef that is in Store there.
I must therefore intreat of you to give him all the Assistance in
your power for procuring him Carriages. I have this day sent
Captain Jocelyn of the Royal American Regiment with 60 men to
Fort Fredrick. I beg M^r Ross may provide them with Provisions,
they escort a Convoy of upwards of thirty Waggons loaded with
Shott & Shells which I should be glad to send up to Fort Cumberland
so that I must intreat of you to appoint some one or other to take

charge of the Amunition and get them forwarded with Battoes &
Canoes to fort Cumberland, for this Service and purchasing more
Indian Corn & Oats I have sent you two hundred Pound & one
hundred Pound of Virginea Currency for paying for For rage that
Colonel Procter may be able to collect at Shanada. The reason of
my sending this Convoy at present to Fort Frederick is, that Col.^o
Bouquet has got about two hundred Waggons with him and if
these had gone that way they wou'd have shut up the narrow Roads
of the Mountains.
I am Dear Governor
Your most Obed.^t &
To Governor Sharp. most humble Serv^t
John S^t Clair.

I have the pleasure to send you Letters from Gen.^l Forbes & M^r
Kirby relating to your Maryland Troops.

[Endorsed on back] From S.^r John St Clair the 23^d June 1758.

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Carlile the 27.^th June 1758.
Dear Sir
I have received your Letters of the 23^d & 25.^th for which I am
extremely oblidged to you for the great Care you have taken in
providing every part of the Service, I hope by this time Captain

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