later that summer. The fort was abandoned in late 1757, and was dismantled in mid-1763. Fort Augusta In June, 1756, Major James Burd finally received sufficient funding and supplies to begin building Fort Augusta at the former site of the Native American village of Shamokin. Colonel Clapham arrived in late June with men and material to start construction. However, he and his men were dissatisfied when the Commissary General, James Young, arrived in mid-July to deliver their pay, much of which had been withheld. Young wrote to Governor Morris on 18 July: "At Shamokin the people are extremely uneasy for their pay. The Colonel is highly displeased [that] I had not orders to pay him for his Captain's commission, likewise that I brought no money to pay the Battoe men; he talks loudly of his ill usage and threatens to leave the service; that he will go and join the Six Nations, whether they side with the English or the French." On 5 August, 1756, Edward Shippen III wrote to his son, Colonel Joseph Shippen, at Shamokin: "You tell me the Colonel [Clapham] frequently says he will soon resign and go to Philadelphia." Clapham had largely completed Fort Augusta by late August 1756. Named for Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the mother of King George III, it was the largest British fort built in Pennsylvania, with earthen walls more than two hundred feet long topped by wooden fortifications.James Herbstritt, Janet Johnson and Kurt Carr, "Digging Fort Hunter’s History," Pennsylvania Heritage, Fall 2011 The fort was garrisoned by sixteen officers and 337 men and had twelve cannons and two swivel guns. It served as base for the Third Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot, known as the Augusta Regiment, which was originally formed to build and garrison Fort Augusta. Clapham was concerned that the fort would be vulnerable to French assault from the west, if the French were to deploy artillery. On 7 September, 1756, he wrote to Franklin requesting permission to hire another carpenter for additional fortification of the fort's walls: "If the Government designs to strengthen this Post by doubling the Fort with another Case of Logs and filling up the intermediate Space with Earth in order to render it Cannon Proof which I think ought to be done." On 8 September, 1756, he wrote to Franklin requesting additional supplies and horses: "This Post, which is in my Opinion of the utmost