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Rh letter of April 19 he affirms "The £20,000 voted in Virginia has been expended tho not yet collected; Pennsylvania and Maryland still refuse to contribute anything; New York has raised £5,000 Currency for the use of the Troops whilst in that province, which I have directed to be applied for the particular Service of the Garrison at Oswego I shall march from this place for Frederick tomorrow Morning in my Way to Will's Creek, where I should have been before this time, had I not been prevented by waiting for the artillery, from which I still fear further delays. I hope to be upon the mountains early in May and some time in June to have it in my power to dispatch an Express with some Account of the Event of our operations upon the Ohio." The disappointed man was not very sanguine of success, but adds, "I hope, Sir, there is good prospect of success in every part of the plan I have laid before you, but it is certain every single attempt is more likely to succeed from the Extensiveness of it." By this he meant that