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not one now. And the Council had soe good an opinion of Capt n Palmer that hee was thought thefittest to bee the Judge of y e court for the Kings affairsAs for sloops &c going from this to Newfoundland , if it was against the act of navigation hee didill to admit soe many to clear @ enter to @ from thence without soe much as taking notice of it, tillhee @ Major Brockhelles falling out, hee took occasion to seize his sloop, which the Council @ Ilooking upon to bee only malicious discharged taking security from him till his Maty* further plea-sure were known Mr Mayne coming here @ shewing mee his instruction, noe vessel has gone fromhence thither since,

And had I not relyed soe much upon Cap 1 Santen none had gone, @ for his sake I’ll not trust toanother soe much again

Mr Santen was in the right I wa3 angry to find a cart-load of goods going off the bridge aftershutting up the Custom House without entry @ demanding of the man how long they had beenthere, hee answered from seven in the morning, without any officers taking notice of them, Uponmy speaking to Mr. Santen he fell excusing his officers @ gave mee ill words. What thereupon hap-pened I refer to My Lord Neal @ Mr Mayne’s testimonies that were then witnesses of it

As for Woolsford’s case I have already referred your Lop* to the account given thereof to S r Ben-jamin Bathurst .

The negro-story I refer to the record herewith sent I never did anything since I came into thegovernment without the advice @ consent of the Council

The ship Charts was cleared upon trial Mr Santen had nothing to allege against her

The sloop Lancaster is the same with that of Gov. Heathcot before mentioned

The Boat of D’Morez was condemned for going to the Mill with Corn without the Governm 1 @seized by Capt Santen

The Sloop Fortune was condemned @ my own share as well as the Kings forgiven, the poor manhaving done what he did innocently

The Sloop Lewis came from Pettiquaves, @ brought here some of our people who had been takenby the Spaniards, in going to Jamaica with provisions @ had fled to Pettiquaves @ the sloop cominghither the master sent up word from Sandy Hook that hee would willingly come @ live here whichI willingly granted him liberty tovioe, @ in consideration of his service in bringing home our peopleI forgave the Kings @ my own part in the sloop after shee was condemned with the proviso that ifhis Maty did not approve of it hee should pay that share according to appraizement for which Bondwas accordingly taken, as will appear to y r Lop* by the attested copie herewith sent In short all thatI’ll say, hee’s fitter for a retired life, than to bee the Kings Collector

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Every Town ought to have a Minister New York has first a Chaplain belonging to the Fort of theWhai er8 ua Church of England; Secondly, a Dutch Calvinist, thirdly a French Calvinist , fourthly aJ'inn’tc Reli ‘ Dutch Lutheran—Here bee not many of the Church of England ; few Roman Catholicks;

abundance of Quakers preachers men @ Women especially; Singing Quakers, RantingQuakers; Sabbatarians; Antisabbatarians; Some Ana baptists some Independents; some Jews ; inshort of all sorts of opinions there are some, and the most part of none at allThe Great Church which serves both the English @ the Dutch is within the Fort which is found toTh * Church bee very inconvenient therefore I desire that there may bee an order for their building an