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gov. dongan’s report on the province of new-york.

What was good @ did lye convenient and near the'sea for y® most part is taken from us by Con-necticut East and West Jersey

What is left is pretty well settled, as your Lop 8 will perceive by the list of patents Mr. Sprag haswith him

When I came to the Goverment, I found very little quit-rent reserved to his Ma‘y however I havegot the people with their own consent to the payment of a certainty as yo* Lop 8 may perceive by theafore mentioned list of patents. Such as pay noe quit-rents I bring into the aforementioned court 'for his Maty 8 rents @ revenues where in a short time they are easily induced to doe it, @ I hope hisMa‘y will have considerable revenue by it

To the Ninth

The principal towns within the Goverm* are New York Albany @ Kingston at Esopus All the restare country villages the buildings in New-York @ Albany are generally of stone @ brick.principal 6 Ih6 In the country the houses are mostly new built, having two or three rooms on a floor TheDutch are great improvers of land New York @ Albany live wholly upon trade with theIndians England and the West Indies . The returns for England are generally Beaver Peltry Oile @Tobacco when we can have it. To the West Indies we send Flower, Bread Pease pork @ sometimeshorses ; the return from thence for the most part is rumm which pays the King a considerable excise@ some molasses which serves the people to make drink @ pays noe customThere are about nine of ten three mast vessels of about 80 or 100 tons burthen two or three ketches@ Barks of about 40 Tun: and about twenty sloops of about twenty or five @ twenty Tunnbelonging to the Goverm* All of which trade for England Holland @ the West Indies ex-cept six or seven sloops that use the river trade to Albany @ that way

The Tenth is answered in the answers to the four @ twentieth

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To the Eleventh

A thousand ships may ride here safe from winds @ weather, I send herewith to your Lodp a Mapwhot rivers from the coming in of Sandy Hook to the northermost end of this Island wherein the?oadsAc r Soundings are markt by which youil perceive the coming in @ conveniency of thisharbor Quit along the north side of Long Island are very good harbors @ roads but on the soutliside none at all

To the Twelfth

what com- What account I can at present give of this is for the most part contained in my answermodiiy f our th of your Lop 8 Queries

To the Thirteenth

Both our neighbors and w T ee have conveniency sufficient either for transporting timber or buildingAnd for tryal if your Lodp think fit, I will send over boards of what dimensions youA'othor p]ease the three inch planks I have for the Batteries cost me fifteen shillings the hundred

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To the Fourteenth

J can give y® Lo noe account at present but by the next I may. I will make a diligent enquiryWhether sau about it @ when I have got any thing worthy of your Lop 8 knowledge I will acquaint

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To the Fifteenth

Concerning the number of the Inhabitants merchants English @ Foreigners, Servants Slaves @ howmany able to bear arms it is not possible to give an exact account but in order to my being^mhabi,l b " C ertainly informed I have issued forth several warrants to the Sheriffs within this goverment