Copy. Duplicate.
New York, 23d. May 1762.
Sir,
I Delayed Acknowledging the Favor of your Letter of the 29th. March, untill I received an Account of the proceedings of your Assembly, which came to my hands last Night, your Letter of the 30th. April, with the Enclosures Accompanying it, having been forwarded to me by Lieut. Govr. Fauquier.
The Behavior of Your Assembly gives me Equal Concern & Surprize; for I cannot Conveive how Subjects whose Welfare & happiness are Studied by His Majesty, in His Requisitions he has been pleased to make, should in Return not only Disobey his Commands, but Treat His Requisitions with the greatest Disrespect.
Your Conduct, on this Occasion, I am persuaded, cannot fail of Meeting with His Majesty's Approbation, and as I have perused the Several Enclosures to the Earl of Egremont, which are so full, that Nothing can be Added to Sett the Whole in a stronger Light, I shall Seal the Packett, agreable to your Desire, and forward it to His Lordship by the the first opportunity.
The Method you propose of Raising the Recruits for the Regulars, Discovers such a publick Spirit, and Tends so much for the good of the Service, that I can have no doubt, but the Bills you Draw on that Accompt, will be Honored, and so soon as I know that any Progress is made in the Recruiting, I shall Send a Vessell with an Officer to Receive the Recruits, and Pay them the Additional Bounty Money, &ca.
I am, with great Regard,
Sir, &ca
Jeff: Amherst
Copy Letter from Sir Jeffery Amherst to Govr. Dobbs.
Dated New York, 23d May 1762.
In Answer to the Governors of the 30th. April Expressing his Concern as well as Surprize at the Behavior of the Assembly of North Carolina, in not Complying with the King's Requisitions but Commending the Governor for his Intentions of Advancing a Sum of Money to Raise the Regular Recruits; and that so soon as he knew that any progress was made in the Recruiting, he would send an officer to Receive them, &ca.
in Sr. J. Amherst's of June 15: 1762
No. 2.
