STATE OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK: 1738.

[ Council Min: XYII. ]

In Council; New York 5 th Jan r y 1737.

His Honor (Lt Gov Clark) laid before the Board several Queries being Twenty in numberrelating to this Province , which were sent to him by the Lords of Trade which having been readwere ordered to be entered in the Minnits and are as follow viz 4 .

Queries relating to His Majesty’s Province of New York .

N° 1. What is the situation of the Province under your Government, the nature of the Countrysoil & Climate, the Latitudes & Longitudes of the most considerable places in it, or the. neighbouringffrench or Spanish settlements 1 Have those Latitudes & Longitudes been settled by good observa-tions, or only by common Computations, and from whence are the Longitudes Computed I

2. What are the Reputed boundaries, and are any parts thereof Disputed, what parts & by whom 1

3. What is the Constitution of the Government 1

4. What is the Trade of the Province , the number of shiping, their tunnage, and the number ofsea-fearing men with y e respective Increase or Diminution within ten years past 1

5. What Quantity & sorts of British Manufactures do the Inhabitants annually take from hence 1

6. What Trade has the Province under y e Governm 4 with any foreign Plantations or any partof Europe, besides Great Britain, how is that Trade carried on, what commoditys do the peopleunder your Government send to, or receive from foreign plantations 1

7. What methods are there used to prevent illegal Trade, and are the same effectual 1

8. What is the Natural produce of the Country staple-Commoditys and Manufactures, and whatvallue thereof in sterling money may you annually Export 1

9. What mines are there 1

10. What is the number of Inhabitants white and Blacks 1

11. Are the Inhabitants Increased or decreased within the last ten years, how much and f orwhat reasons 1

12. What is the number of the Militia 1

13. What fforts and places of Defence are there within your Government, and in what Condition 1

14. What number of Indians have you and how are they inclined 1

15. What is the strength of the neighbouring Indians ?

16. What is the strength of your neighbouring Europeans ffrench or Spaniards 1

17. What effect have the ffrench or Spanish Settlements on the Continent of America upon HisMajesty’s plantations, especially on your province 1

18. What is the Revenue arising within your Government and how Is it appropriated I

19. What are the ordinary and extraordinary Expences of your Government!

20. What are the Establishments civil & military within your Government, and by what authority