Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1754-1755 (Philadelphia, 1755), p. 117.
[July 28, 1755]
May it please the Governor,

We have considered that Part of the Governor’s Message relating to the proposed March of Colonel Dunbar’s Forces from Fort Cumberland to Philadelphia; and as the People on the Frontiers are at present under great Apprehensions of Danger, and ready to abandon their Settlements; and those Forces, if properly disposed, might contribute very much to their Security, and be as well provided with every Thing, as they could be at Philadelphia; and as there are yet several Months in which the Weather in this Climate is commonly such as that it is not absolutely necessary Men should go into Quarters; we would request the Governor to take the Steps that may be proper to procure a Disposition of the Troops in such Places, as may be most suitable for the Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants of this and the neighbouring Colonies, at least till the Approach of Winter.

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